Dozens of Girls Found Sacrificed

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 13:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Many of the 33 mummies uncovered near Chiclayo, Peru, were those of girls—a rarity, experts say. Their throats slit, the girls were probably killed in a bid for agricultural fertility. Video.

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