Rare burial of elite toddler from pre-Inca culture discovered in Peru

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A ceramic statue with a large head and ears sits in a cave.

The child was buried alongside two ceramic objects depicting defeated warriors about to be sacrificed. (Image credit: Huacas de Moche Archaeological Project - UNT)

Archaeologists in Peru have found an elaborate 1,500-year-old tomb that may hold the remains of a high-status toddler from a pre-Inca civilization.

The burial, which is from the Moche culture, also contained vessels depicting prisoners with rope around each of their necks and a sculpture of a human-bird deity.

Moche (also known as Mochica) culture developed along the northern coast of what is now Peru from the Read Entire Article