{"id":58119,"date":"2018-04-28T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=58119"},"modified":"2018-04-28T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:18:38","slug":"what-may-be-worlds-largest-ancient-mass-child-sacrifice-discovered-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=58119","title":{"rendered":"What May be World\u2019s Largest Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice Discovered in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peru&#8230;Evidence for the\u00a0largest single incident of mass child sacrifice in the Americas\u2014 and likely in world history\u2014 has been discovered by National Geographic Explorers\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">on Peru\u2019s northern coast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">More than 140 children and 200 young llamas appear to have been ritually sacrificed in an event that took place some 550 years ago on a wind-swept bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, in the shadow of what was then the sprawling capital of the Chim\u00fa Empire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NG_News_ChildSacrifice_002-533x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NG_News_ChildSacrifice_002-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NG_News_ChildSacrifice_002-533x400-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NG_News_ChildSacrifice_002-533x400-119x89.jpg 119w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NG_News_ChildSacrifice_002-533x400-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NG_News_ChildSacrifice_002-533x400-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>Photograph by Gabriel Prieto \/ National Geographic<br \/>\nArchaeologist Gabriel Prieto, second from left, who made the discovery, works with his team<br \/>\nexcavating at the H<\/p>\n<p>While incidents of human sacrifice among the Aztec, Maya, and Inca have been recorded in colonial-era Spanish chronicles and documented in modern scientific excavations, the discovery of a large-scale child sacrifice event in the little-known pre-Columbian Chim\u00fa civilization is unprecedented in the Americas\u2014if not in the entire world. What could have caused this unprecedented event?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Scientific investigations by the international, interdisciplinary team, led by National Geographic Explorers Gabriel Prieto of the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo and John Verano of Tulane University, are ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Read the full National Geographic story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/04\/mass-child-human-animal-sacrifice-peru-chimu-science\/?beta=true\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peru&#8230;Evidence for the\u00a0largest single incident of mass child sacrifice in the Americas\u2014 and likely in world history\u2014 has been discovered by National Geographic Explorers\u00a0on Peru\u2019s northern coast.\u00a0\u00a0More than 140 children and 200 young llamas appear to have been ritually sacrificed in an event that took place some 550 years ago on a wind-swept bluff overlooking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NG_News_ChildSacrifice_002-533x400.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}