Inca gold llama
c. AD 1500 · Resource
A miniature figurine of a llama in hammered sheet gold, made as a votive offering to accompany the Inca capacocha child-sacrifice ritual. Reflects Inca beliefs that gold was the sweat of the sun.
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Around 1500
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)