Guatemala’s Cueva de Sangre, translated as “blood cave,” isn’t just a clever name. It’s an apropos description of the cave ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual ...

The combination of injuries discovered on the bones; the high density of human remains in the cave; and the presence of ritual items, such as red ocher and obsidian blades, strongly suggests that ...

This wasn’t always the case, however, and a new analysis from deep inside an ancient cave shows the birds may ... which is a very specific type of ritual eating.” Great bustards are listed ...

Now, researchers have presented evidence showing the cave was used by the Maya people for ritual human sacrifice some two millennia ago. Researchers, including Michele Bleuze from California State ...