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

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 / ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Temple Of Kukulkan El Castillo pyramid, Chichen Itza Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. ... and that the sacrifice of twins is a theme in the group’s 2,000-year-old religious text.

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 ...

Now, DNA obtained from 64 of them is offering insight into child sacrifice at Chichen Itza in the centuries before Europeans. Maya sacrifice of twin boys revealed by DNA from Chichen Itza.

Chichen Itza is known for its stunning architecture, including an impressive pyramid structure now called El Castillo. Nearby is a sacred water-filled sinkhole called a cenote, where the bodies of ...