Inca cemetery holds brutal glimpses of Spanish violence

Skeletons provide first material evidence of conquest-related fatalities

If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities caused by Spanish conquerors.

VIOLENT CONTACT Skeletons such as this one unearthed in Peru have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca deaths caused by Spanish conquerors around 500 years ago.