The British Museum’s latest exhibition will feature “ rediscovered ” wooden figures that appear to confirm ancient Peruvians were rowing prisoners of war to a tiny Pacific island to be ritually sacrificed. The carvings, depicting rope-bound captives, are shrouded in mystery. Ceramic evidence found on the Peruvian mainland depicts a warrior from the Moche civilisation being taken on a reed boat to Macabi, a small rocky outcrop off the coast of northern Peru, but the island itself has never had pr
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2021-09-08 00:00:00.0