The details of a former massacre of children are revealed

A team of specialists discovered a former mbadacre of children. They are the largest remains of a human sacrifice. It is thought that the cause was to attract good weather.

A year ago, a group of archaeologists announced the discovery of a mbadacre ritual from ages ago. This was the largest case of human sacrifice discovered to date. They were buried in the sand of a fifteenth-century site called Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, Peru. They found nearly 140 skeletons of children, as well as the remains of 200 lamas.
At first, nothing could justify the mbad murder of boys and girls aged 5 to 14 years. Now, researchers say it was done in desperation in response to a climate disaster.

"What we seem to have in Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, it's a sacrifice to put an end to torrential rains, floods and mudslides," said John Verano, an anthropologist at Tulane University.

It is the rituals of the ancient Chimú civilization that inhabited the northern coast of Peru. The inhabitants murdered these children, presumably by opening their hearts and extracting their hearts.

First discovery

In 2011, Michele Spano Pescara addressed Gabriel Prieto, archaeologist at the National University of Trujillo in Peru. He told her that his children had dug bones near his home. When Prieto followed the man to this place, he was stunned. "There were so many human remains and complete corpses in perfect condition on all sides," said Prieto.

Prieto summoned a colleague, Katya Valladares, who studied the skeletons and identified marks of cuts on many of the children's sternones. This indicated that the burial site was not a collective cemetery, but rather the location of an organized killing.

From 2011 to 2016, Prieto and his colleagues unearthed up to 137 full skeletons and leftover more than 200 llamas. This in an area that extends over about 700 square kilometers, where was the mbadacre.

Some bodies were buried wrapped in rags, some wore cotton headdresses and others had cinnabar red paint preserved in their skulls. Buried beside many victims were young llamas, each less than 18 months old. The team found that the children were buried west to the coast, while the flames headed east towards the Andes Mountains.

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