TEMPLES OF DOOM.(human sacrifice)(includes related article on meaning of human sacrifice)

From: Discover | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: PRINGLE, HEATHER | Copyright information

Archaeological discoveries related to the Moche, an ancient people who lived in the Andes, is helping toshed light on the ritual sacrifice of humans. Mass graves of ritually killed people have been unearthed, and the forensic evidence is being compared to drawings on pots of human sacrifice. Between the forensic evidence and the drawings, an understanding of human sacrifice is emerging.

Human sacrifice has long been one of history's unprovable secrets. Then Steve Bourget began digg...

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