Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of more than 100 human bones which researchers believe belonged to those sacrificed by ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

Ritual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent girls. In ...

The ancient Maya civilization— peppered throughout parts of modern-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras— ...

Genetic clues have unveiled a type of ritual child sacrifice at an ancient Maya site that consisted only of young boys, often chosen as closely related pairs that included twins. The discovery stems ...

(a) Location of the Maya region in the Americas. (b) Geographical locations of Chichén Itzá and Tixcacaltuyub in the Yucatan Peninsula. (c) Stratigraphy for the chultún and the adjacent cave in which ...

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Scientists believe the people were sacrificed to appease the Mayan rain god, Chaac. Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of ...

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