Six mummified children thought to have been sacrificed hundreds of years ago, apparently to accompany a dead nobleman to the afterlife, have been unearthed in a tomb near Lima, archaeologists reported.
The tiny skeletons, wrapped tightly in cloth, were found in the grave of an important man, possibly a political figure, discovered last November at the dig site of Cajamarquilla about 15 miles east of Lima.
“The children could be close relatives and were placed… in different parts of the entrance of the tomb of the (nobleman’s) mummy, one on top of the other,” archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen, in charge of the dig, told AFP.
“The children, according to our working hypothesis, would have been sacrificed to accompany the mummy to the underworld,” says Van Dalen.
Cajamarquilla was a city built out of mud in about 200 BC, in the pre-Inca period, and occupied until about 1500. It could have been home to 10,000-20,000 people.
Van Dalen said the mummies were about 1,000 to 1,200 years old.
Nearby, the team also found the bones of seven adults who had not been mummified, as well as the remains of llama-like animals, and earthenware.
The remains of the supposed nobleman were found last year in a tomb some three meters long and 1.4 meters deep in Cajamarquilla, one of the largest archaeological complexes near Lima.
He had been about 20 when he died and was entombed with his hands covering his face, and tied up with rope.
In 2018, archaeologists in Peru found evidence of the biggest-ever sacrifice of children, uncovering the remains of more than 140 youngsters who were slain alongside 200 llamas as part of a ritual offering some 550 years ago.
Researchers determined that the children were between the ages of five and 14, although most were between eight and 12 when they died, with their bodies buried facing west — out to sea, National Geographic reported.
“It is ritual killing, and it’s very systematic,” said John Verano, a physical anthropologist from Tulane University in New Orleans.
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Thsi story sounds like something biden is trying to get done here and now. By forcing the vaccine he is killing people and getting away with it.
What a stupid comment from a very pithy person!
Tom is uneducated. He is describing himself, or herself!
I’ll let everyone else come to their own conclusion for the 3 comments above.
Definition of pithy
1: consisting of or abounding in pith
2: having substance and point : tersely cogent
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Definition of pith (Entry 1 of 2)
1a: a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage
b: any of various loose spongy plant tissues that resemble true pith
c: the soft or spongy interior of a part of the body
2a: the essential part : CORE
b: substantial quality (as of meaning)
3: IMPORTANCE
pith verb
pithed; pithing; piths
Definition of pith (Entry 2 of 2)
transitive verb
1a: to kill (an animal) by piercing or severing the spinal cord
pith cattle
b: to destroy the spinal cord or central nervous system of (an animal, such as a frog) usually by passing a wire or needle up and down the spinal canal
2: to remove the pith from (a plant stem)
I REALLY want to know why every article in this feed has some idiot bringing in the presidents either current or past. Get over the assholes in government and stop defending people without ethics or morals!!!!!!!!!!!!