Their most important practices were the use of augury, which was reading omens from birds and lightning strikes, and haruspicy, which was examining entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the liver, to divine future events.
During her lifetime, she played an active role in public life, performed important rites, led armies into battle, and helped her husband usher in a golden age for the Shang dynasty.
Peruvian and Polish scientists worked with a specialist in facial reconstruction from Sweden to build up a silicon likeness of " Juanita" , a teenage Inca girl sacrificed high in the Andes 500 years ago.
This looks back to an ancient sacrificial ritual established long before Hinduism-that had been observed by the Indian kings of the past, and was preserved and continued by the Guptas.