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 ...

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 ...

Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial mummy found on Chile's El Plomo Peak ... Most scholars agree that the purpose of the sacrifice, known as "capacocha," was to appease the mountain gods ...