This ancient society tried to stop El Niño—with child sacrifice This ancient society tried to stop El Niño—with child sacrifice This Inca girl ... New Clues About Human Sacrifices at Ancient ...

Very little is known about Capacocha, the sacred Inca ceremony of human sacrifice, but with each ... the crown seat of the Inca empire. Priests, family members, and chiefs would accompany the ...

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 A Final ...

and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice. To the Incan eye, the landscape of their empire was riddled with shrines.