Desperate to make the torrential rains stop, the Chimú people of Peru offered up their most precious resource to the gods: their future. Researchers have only found out the scope of the sacrifice in recent years
has uncovered evidence of mass child sacrifice around Chan Chan, a massive mudbrick city in northern Peru that served as the capital of the Chimú people from the 11th century until they were conquered by the Inca around 1470. More than 250 young victims, whose grisly deaths occurred around 1400-1450,. Most were dispatched with a swift cut across the chest and buried in simple shrouds alongside baby llamas.
“Sacrifices are very carefully constructed negotiations and forms of communication with the supernatural,” says, a professor of anthropology at George Mason University. “It’s the Chimú interacting with the cosmos as they understood it.” Archaeologists excavate the burial of a sacrificed child at the site of Pampa la Cruz near the World Heritage site of Chan Chan in northern Peru.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.The need to placate the spirits and stop the El Niño-driven rains may have been an urgent issue for Chimú society, but the mass sacrifice itself appears to have been carefully orchestrated.
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