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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role. New archaeological finds add to evidence that the Maya city of Tikal in ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, pyramids and a unique canal system that could shed further light on the ancient ...