Human Sacrifice: Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh?
Posted by Justin on June 21st, 2010
New archeological evidence proves that the China’s Western Zhou dynasty dabbled in human sacrifice roughly 2,700 years ago.
“In general, there’s been a tendency to describe Western Zhou as a more humanistic period, when the practice of human sacrifices”—which were commonplace during the preceding Shang Dynasty—”were waning,” Sena said.
“But I think the archaeological evidence shows quite clearly that human sacrifices persisted throughout the Zhou period as well.”
So now we know.
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