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Forensic analysis of frozen Inca mummies reveals that sacrificed children were plied with coca leaves, corn beer and ayahuasca compounds before death
The capacocha was one of the most sacred ceremonies of the Inca Empire, involving the sacrifice of children on the ...
Children in the Inca Empire were drugged with coca leaves, corn beer and poisonous plants before they were sacrificed, ...
A new Antiquity study of eight Inca mummies finds the substances given to sacrificed children varied by site, from coca and corn beer to a psychoactive plant.
In the final month of her life, an eight-year-old girl in the Inca Empire appears to have consumed alcohol while chewing coca ...
From the ritual, the Inca believed the children would become the intermediary between them and the gods—and these substances may have been an "offering" to ease their journey.
New toxicology tests of Incan mummies found the kids were given not just cocaine, but alcohol and chemicals found in ...
Known for their impressive fortifications, terraces, and royal residences—including Machu Picchu—the Inca Empire dominated the Urubamba River Basin in the 15th century until its untimely demise.
Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...
Archaeologists have performed toxicological analysis on the mummified remains of people sacrificed at mountain shrines across ...
Analysis of the hair and fingernails of eight mummified Inca children reveals that they were given cocaine and alcohol prior ...
Women and children may have been plied with cocaine, alcohol and psychoactive drugs before they were brutally sacrificed by ...
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