In Incan times, a select group of girls called "Virgins of the Sun" were taken from their families and prepared for what was believed to be the highest honor: a human sacrifice to the Gods (04:38 ...

The discovery of an Inca mummy on the Quehuar Volcano, located in the Salta region of Argentina in 1975, was a significant ...

Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her to the Inca Emperor as a Capacocha sacrifice. She was taken by priests to Cuzco where she met the Inca Emperor, and on her return ...

Over 500 years ago, a teenage Inca girl died during a ritual sacrifice high in the Andes Mountains in present-day Peru. Now, an artist has created a reconstruction of what the so-called “Inca ...

The first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was found atop a peak in Chile in 1954. "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo," the Mummy of El Plomo Peak became its name, and until Juanita ...

whose stunning murals depict the bloody sacrifice of war captives, and the Inca, who vanquished the Chimú around 1470, only to be conquered by Spanish invaders little more than 60 years later.

Religion empowered a single Emperor, the Sapa Inca, from the capital Cuzco. Based around the sun god Inti. The sacrifice of children and young women, a ceremony called capacocha, was a central ...

"People sacrifice that which is of most and greatest ... The Chimú, who worshipped a moon deity, were conquered by the Inca civilisation just a few decades later. About 50 years after that ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a richly decorated throne room and a “Hall of the Braided Serpents” from the Moche culture, ...

Descended in part from Inca colonists sent here more than 500 years ago, the inhabitants of Taquile keep the old ways. They weave brilliantly colored cloth, speak the traditional language of the ...

For something thoroughly Peruvian, start at the Museo Santuario Indios, where you’ll discover the mummied remains of an Incan sacrifice; visit the cathedral’s museum or the Museum of ...