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1,000-year-old dog sacrifice burial site found in Peru

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of 10 dogs, together with two guinea pigs and a human, estimated to be about 1,000 years old, in the midst of Peru's bustling capital in the Parque de las Leyendas zoo in the San Miguel district. The 1000-year-old dogs were wrapped in textiles and buried alongside humans,  perhaps as part of a Sacrifice [Credit: Rubén Sánchez]The discovery was found inside two small trenches in the pre-Incan...

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