Anthropologists in Peru have unearthed the largest known child sacrifice
550 years ago, the Chimu people may have killed 140 children to appease their gods
![fossilized child in Peru mass sacrifice site](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/042618_BB_child-massacre_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
SACRIFICIAL STARE Discoveries at the site of the largest known mass sacrifice of children included this shroud-covered youngster lying next to a llama and a rope that was used to lead the llama. The Peruvian site dates to around 1450.