Posted on 08/27/2018 1:25:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The use of high technology in the form of small, all-terrain robots has made it possible to shed light on possible human sacrifices as much as 3,000 years old in the temple of Chavin de Huantar in Peru, the first major religious and pilgrimage center in South American history.
The Chavin Rovers, as the robots are called... edged through the narrow channels that lead to the galleries of the complex, many of which remain hidden to this day, and came upon the most important discovery on this site in the last 50 years.
These robotic four-wheel-drive vehicles, guided by remote control and equipped with cameras and lighting systems, played a leading role in the first discovery of burials from the Chavin period, graves of the same men who built the temple and which are still intact after thousands of years.
"What's interesting is that they weren't people of high social standing. They were probably sacrificed, but we'll find that out with further studies," US archaeologist John Rick, director for almost 25 years of the excavations financed by Peru's Culture Ministry, Stanford University in the United States and the Antamina mining company.
The US archaeologist was intrigued by the position of the bodies, buried face down under piles of rocks, which he considered "not very honorable" treatment for the departed.
"So we have solved part of the mystery about where the people of Chavin buried their dead. I don't believe it was customary to do it in the galleries but sometimes they did," said Rick, who in two months has hardly set foot outside the ruins, nestled in a remote valley of the Andes at 3,100 meters (10,200 feet) above sea level...
(Excerpt) Read more at laht.com ...
Cultural equivalence ( sarcasm)
Since Roe v Wade 44 Million Abortions Were Performed; Meanwhile 38 Million Immigrants Arrived
I haven't read any Roman history since I took five years of Latin in the 1960s.
However, I do not recall that mass slaughter was a common practice unless there was open and violent rebellion.
In addition, many decades of relative tranquility would typically follow periods of great bloodshed.
To my eye, that kind of military reprisal was common throughout history in every corner of the world.
As to ongoing religious human sacrifice, once again I am no expert, but my impression is that it was never common in Europe or European colonies.
Not just 3,000 year olds, but 3,000 year old virgins!
Cassell’s Biographical Dictionary, etc. [With plates. Edited by T. T. Shore.]
p426
“In 55 BC Caesar drove back with great slaughter some other German tribes who sought to cross the Rhine”
Caesar sent out forces under Trebonuius and :Labienus to slaughter the Manipii and the Aduatuci.”
Caesar 53-52 B.C.
By Nigel Cawthorne
p.xv “multitudes of the inhabitants were put to the sword”
gaius iulius caesar gallic war, Book 1
By C. Julius Caesar
“tens of thousands were cut down, as they fled, including many women and children”.
Julius Caesar
By Philip Freeman p.177
footnote 4.15d “”including the massacre of women and children”
/ p.177 The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works : Gallic War, Civil War ...
Check this article out about human sacrifices. hundreds of babies found in septic tank.
Thanks but no thanks.
or something
They are not. We have better ovens:
“We are all one incinerator away, or one incineration company away, from being closed,” Michigan abortion chain owner Renee Chelian said at a 2014 National Abortion Federation conference. “I had five months’ worth of fetal tissue in my freezers” before Stericycle came along.
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