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 ...

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.

Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial ... sometimes included human sacrifices, at elevations approaching 23,000 feet. Most scholars agree that the purpose of the sacrifice, known as "capacocha ...