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Peru revealed a sacrifice too large to comprehend. 🦴
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Creepy DiscoveriesSep 06, 2026

Peru revealed a sacrifice too large to comprehend. 🦴

Peru revealed a sacrifice too large to comprehend. 🦴 . . . At Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, archaeologists documented more than 140 children and more than 200 camelids, killed around AD 1450. Their bodies were placed facing the Pacific. The children appear to have been offered after heavy rain flooded the desert coast.

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