And yes, their religious beliefs involved human sacrifice rituals. A recent Nature study tested the bone DNA of more than 60 ...

researchers discover a practice of ritual child sacrifice focused exclusively on males. Close kin relationships, including two pairs of identical twins, suggest a connection to the Maya origin ...

researchers discover a practice of ritual child sacrifice focused exclusively on males. Close kin relationships, including two pairs of identical twins, suggests a connection to the Maya origin ...

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.

said in the news release that she hopes the new research will shine a new light on what ritual sacrifice in the Mayan civilization looked like and meant. "Early 20th century accounts falsely ...

The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

A new study explores the ritual practice of child sacrifice at Chichén Itzá, an ancient Maya city. Following the collapse of the classical Maya civilization, Chichén Itzá emerged as a powerful and ...

Ancient Maya burials, once thought to show human sacrifice, may instead reflect ancestral ties, according to a theory by Dr.

He wasn’t involved in the study but is an editor of a new book on ritual sacrifice in Mesoamerica. “This characterization of Maya sacrifice was catapulted to the forefront through media ...

Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas ... that the cave was a sacred location in which ritual blood sacrifices were held. This theory is supported ...

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 ...

Cueva de Sangre, or the 'Blood Cave', has proved fascinating for researchers for decades.