More than 140 children and 200 young llamas appear to have been ritually sacrificed in an event that took place some 550 years ago on a wind-swept bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, in the shadow of what was then the sprawling capital of the Chimú Empire.
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“When people hear about what happened and the scale of it, the first thing they always ask is why.”
Source: Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice in Peru May Be World’s Largest
