Very little is known about Capacocha, the sacred Inca ceremony of human sacrifice, but with each new archaeological discovery of a sacrificial mummy, more is revealed. The earliest and only known ...

When the Inca sacrificed children on mountain summits 500 years ago in the capacocha ritual ... to build a museum for the recent Inca mummy finds (like Juanita and Sarita) and the artefacts.

The Capacocha ritual was one of the most significant religious ceremonies in the Inca Empire. It involved sacrificing children and young women to deities and sacred places at the summits of ...