{"id":215819,"date":"2022-02-23T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/1-200-year-old-remains-of-sacrificed-adults-kids-unearthed-in-peru"},"modified":"2022-02-23T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:20:00","slug":"1-200-year-old-remains-of-sacrificed-adults-kids-unearthed-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/1-200-year-old-remains-of-sacrificed-adults-kids-unearthed-in-peru","title":{"rendered":"1,200-year-old remains of sacrificed adults, kids unearthed in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Peruvian archeologist works at an excavation site to recover the remains of one of 14 pre-Incan mummies, six children and eight adults which are nearly 1000 years old, at the archeological complex in Cajamarquilla, Peru February 13, 2022. REUTERS\/StringerLIMA, Feb 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the pre-Incan Cajamarquilla complex east of Lima.The remains were outside an underground tomb where the team from Peru&#8217;s San Marcos University found in November an ancient mummy thought to be a VIP bound with ropes, in a fetal position.Archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen said the bodies, some mummified and others skeletons, were wrapped in various layers of textiles as part of ancient pre-Hispanic ritual, and had likely been sacrificed to accompany the main mummy.&#8221;For them, death was not the end, but rather a transition to a parallel world where the dead lived,&#8221; Van<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Feb 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-215819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}