33 Peru Mummies Victim of Human Sacrifices

The head of a team of archaeologists examining 33 mummies found in Peru says the bodies were human sacrifices.”The majority of them were sacrificed using a very sharp bladed tool, possibly a copper or bronze tummy knife. And for the majority there are numerous combinations, complex set of dissimilarity on cutting of the throat, “Mr. Klaus said.

Sacrifices were made “to make certain that there would still be rain and agricultural fruitfulness”, Klaus explained.

What made the finding so unusual in the eyes of the experts was that the majority of the mummies were females.”The blood sacrifice of a large group of women is something that is very, very strange, it is the first time we have ever seen this”, Mr. Klaus said.

In fact, 30 of the 33 bodies were female and according to Klaus they were all very young when they were sacrificed.The majority hadn’t reached 15-years-old and some of the mummies were children not older than nine.

Professor Klaus explicated that in Andean society children weren’t considered human beings. “Children are not human beings since human life comes from mountains. And when a child is born, a child is likened to a wild unmanageable mountain spirit,” Klaus said.

In an excellent state of preservation, many still with their hair and teeth intact, the mummies have provided endless study material for Klaus .He was able to extract DNA, learn about the diseases they had, their diets, their ages, causes of death and even possible kinship among the mummies.