Human Sacrifices Found at Ancient China Complex

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Many of the sacrifices unearthed at China's new Luoyang archaeological site, pictured on June 6, would have been intended to bless the foundations of homes, buildings, and tombs, Sena said.

"For people of that time, to walk into a building that hadn't been properly consecrated would have been seen as much more dangerous than walking on top of [buried] sacrificial victims," he said.

(Related: "Ancient Tomb Found in Mexico Reveals Mass Child Sacrifice.")

Published June 15, 2010