"The boy was meant to be taken to an altar as part of a ritual ... Bureau lodged 103 cases of human sacrifice in the country between 2014 and 2021. Ritual killings are usually conducted to ...

Ritual sacrifice was often replaced with symbolic offerings (e.g., grain ... The battlefield has become humanity’s new altar, as human sacrifice has evolved from a divine offering to a national duty.

Romans kept dogs as pets, exemplified in this mosaic from the second or third century A.D. Some of the bones from the ritual deposit ... the possibility of human sacrifice—slitting the throat ...

An Offering from the Herd (verses 10-13). Three types of animals are noted in descending order of economic worth: bull ...