The capacocha was one of the most sacred ceremonies of the Inca Empire, involving the sacrifice of children on the ...

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.

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 ...

Children in the Inca Empire were drugged with coca leaves, corn beer and poisonous plants before they were sacrificed, ...

They were sacrificed by their people, the Inca, to serve as messengers for the gods in a ritual known as capacocha, their small bodies laid to rest with honor and care.

Learn how traces of coca, alcohol, and a plant compound preserved in inca mummies offer clues to how children were prepared for sacrifice 500 years ago.

Archaeologists have performed toxicological analysis on the mummified remains of people sacrificed at mountain shrines across ...

In the final month of her life, an eight-year-old girl in the Inca Empire appears to have consumed alcohol while chewing coca ...

Inca children were drugged before they were sacrificed, mummy discovery confirms - There were distinct differences between the substances given to each sacrificed Inca individual ...

Analysis of the hair and fingernails of eight mummified Inca children reveals that they were given cocaine and alcohol prior ...

LIMA, Peru — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter (20 ...