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.

A key ritual, practiced around 500 years ago, was known as capacocha and involved the sacrifice of children on mountain peaks. The Incas believed that children, typically aged between six and 13 ...