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.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1500
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)