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Archaeologists find ancient mass child sacrifice in Peru

Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world's largest single case of child Sacrifice. Remains of sacrificial children and llamas [Credit: Gabriel Prieto]The pre-Columbian burial site, known as Las Llamas, contains the skeletons of 140 children who were between the ages of five and 14 when they were ritually sacrificed during a ceremony about 550 years ago, experts who led the excavation told...

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