Ritual sacrifice at Chichén Itzá Ancient Maya genomes reveal the practice of male twin sacrifice and the enduring genetic legacy of colonial-era epidemics ...

Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichén Itzá was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual ...

To better understand ritual life and the context of child sacrifice at Chichén Itzá, an international team of researchers from institutions including the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary ...

In 1967, an underground cistern known as a chultun was discovered near a sacred body of water at Chichen Itza, an important ancient Maya city on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Skeletal remains of ...

The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in modern-day Mexico is inextricable in popular imagination from the spectre of human sacrifice. Thanks to lurid 16th-century accounts from Spanish ...

After analysing the remains of 64 ancient sacrificed individuals, most of whom were children, researchers have revealed new details about human sacrifice at the ancient Maya site of Chichén Itzá.

A study of human remains deposited over 800 years at the Maya city of Chichen Itza challenges long-held assumptions about the age and gender of sacrifice victims. The Great Pyramid (El Castillo ...

Bodies at the ancient Mexican city of Chichen Itza belonged to young boys, reveals a gruesome new study by experts at the Max-Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.

DNA reveals surprise about the children ancient Mayans chose to sacrifice. Researchers analyzing DNA at ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá, a site for human sacrifices, found that young boys ...

An international research team genetically tested 64 children sacrificed at Chichen Itza, uncovering facts about ritual sacrifices and the modern scars of colonial epidemics. Kendra Leon Barrionuevo / ...

Ancient Maya deposited sacrifice victims and ritualistic objects in Chichén Itzá's Sacred Cenote. No machine-readable author provided. Andre m assumed (based on copyright claims). , CC BY-SA 3.0 ...