Skeletons of Incan kids buried 500 years ago found marred with smallpox
The burial of a 1.5-year-old child, whose bones show evidence of smallpox, who was buried in the early-colonial Huanchaco cemetery in Peru. (Image credit: Gabriel Prieto/Huanchaco Archaeological Program) A 16th-century cemetery in Peru holds the remains of two toddlers whose skeletons still show the devastating impact of smallpox in the early-colonial period. The rare find may…