Physical anthropologist John Verano has seen plenty while working in Peru over the last 30 years.

Archaeologists think the ritual, which felled 137 children and 200 llamas, might have been motivated by recent natural disaster.

Anthropologists have found evidence of a mass ritual killing that involved the deaths of more than 140 children, three adults and at least 200 young llamas on the northern coast of Peru. The ...

Recent excavations at a 15th century archaeological site on the coast of Peru have revealed an enormous mass burial of 137 children, three adults, and 200 llamas or alpacas. Archaeologists argue ...

Some 500 years ago, the Chimú in what is now Peru ritually killed hundreds of their young in the largest mass child sacrifice events known in world history. Now archaeologists are trying to ...

TRUJILLO, PERU— Live Science reports that the 550-year-old remains of around 140 children and 200 llamas have been discovered at the Chimú site of Huanchaquito-Las Llamas in northern Peru.

The llamas were placed next to the children, or on top of their bodies. To read about another example of human sacrifice in Peru, go to “ Women in a Temple of Death.” ...

In one of history's largest human sacrifices, about 140 children and 200 llamas were killed at a site in Peru. Archaeologists aren't sure why.

A mass sacrifice at a 15th century archaeological site in Peru saw the ritual killing of over 140 children and over 200 llamas, according to a study released March 6, 2019 in the open access ...

A mass sacrifice at a 15th century archaeological site in Peru saw the ritual killing of over 140 children and over 200 llamas, according to a study released March 6, 2019 in the open access ...

Anthropologists have found evidence of a mass ritual killing that involved the deaths of more than 140 children, three adults, and at least 200 young llamas on the northern coast of Peru.