1,200-year-old remains of sacrificed adults and kids unearthed in Peru - See pics
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An archaeologist said the bodies, some mummified and others skeletons, were wrapped in various layers of textiles as part of the ancient pre-Hispanic ritual.
LIMA: Peruvian archaeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the pre-Incan Cajamarquilla complex east of Lima.
The remains were outside an underground tomb where the team from Peru`s San Marcos University found in November an ancient mummy thought to be a VIP bound with ropes, in a fetal position.
(A Peruvian archeologist works at an excavation site to recover the remains of 14 pre-Incan mummies, six children and eight adults which are nearly 1000 years old, at the archeological complex in Cajamarquilla)
Archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen said the bodies, some mummified and others skeletons, were wrapped in various layers of textiles as part of the ancient pre-Hispanic ritual, and had likely been sacrificed to accompany the main mummy.
"For them, death was not the end, but rather a transition to a parallel world where the dead lived," Van Dalen told a news conference. "They thought that the souls of the dead became protectors of the living."
