Human sacrifice: Victims killed in bloody rituals in China 3,000 years ago were war captives

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Ancient sacrificial victims discovered at the Chinese archaeological site of Yinxu, 500 km south of Beijing, were probably kept as war captives before they were killed, archaeologists have said. Yinxu was the capital of the late Shang Dynasty (1300-1046 BCE), and is now a significant archaeological site, which testifies to the development of a rich […]

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June 19, 2017 at 07:09AM