Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization at the Yaxnohcah ruins (Yucatán Peninsula) were conducted with ...

The kings and priests would then perform rituals ... related to death and decay. As per their belief system, the sun god "Kinich Ahau" took the perilous journey through the Mayan underworld ...

The discoveries of the deposits of houses B and E revealed “the majority exploitation of fish, one of the least studied animal groups in Mayan zooarchaeology”. The information was released in ...