The girl's remains revealed the terrifying power of the Inca empire

The might of the great Inca empire was partly built on a cruel and fearsome terror power, which the four found remains have shown.

Archaeologists have discovered what they describe as "something wrong" in the old village at the foot of a hill in the majestic Andes mountains. The village belongs to the famous Inca empire (also known as Incan or Inka).

Those are four human skulls. Usually, the remains are conspicuous in ancient settlements. However, the 4 skulls in the ruins of the village called Iglesia Colorada have some strange holes, located in the middle of what looks like . an old garbage dump with many food debris, ceramic pieces thrown away from ancient times. Moreover, archaeologists found no bones belonging to the rest of the body, no traces of tombs and no burial objects - very unusual for Inca customs.

One of the skulls - (photo courtesy of the team)

The team, from the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, measured bone age and identified four skulls as young women with low bone density, indicating severe malnutrition. Three skulls belonged to 16-30 year old girls, while the other was a girl aged 11-13 years old.

A broken skull was temporarily reassembled - (photo courtesy of the team)

The subsequent research process gave a very tragic explanation. These young women are enemies of the region's rulers.They were killed, their skulls strung into a lurid rope used in rituals. That's why there are strange holes in the skull. Numerous marks on the bones show a brutal act of slaughtering the skin and skin to remove the skull.

Inca Pyramid, a famous symbol - (photo: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)

According to the authors, it was the "terrorist power" that the Inca dynasty created to overpower the people and threaten the enemies. Only the remains of women used could be for the sake of men - inherent in labor and fighting - to be left alive as slaves.

Thankfully, that "terrorist power" was only encapsulated in a dynasty, not spread throughout the empire. Inca civilization developed from the early 13th century and flourished during the following century.

The findings have just been published in the Latin American scientific journal Antiquity.

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