While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

When it came to human sacrifices, the ancient Maya actually may have preferred sacrificing boys over girls. Children’s remains were found in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, where the ancient city ...

How did the Maya choose sacrifice victims ... at Egyptian Tomb Illuminates Life Before Pharaohs Read New Clues About Human Sacrifices at Ancient Peruvian Temple New Clues About Human Sacrifices ...

Which reminds me… Kukulkan demands human sacrifices. It is a great honour ... at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath the floors so they could protect ...

In modern-day Turkey, a cemetery dating to the early Bronze Age holds burials full of luxurious goods—and numerous human sacrifices. Archaeologists have long been puzzled by the details of the ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city ... an offering of a human skull, pottery, the skull of a dog, deer bones, and a two-edged knife probably used for sacrifices, all ...

These gods had to be pleased so Maya communities made regular offerings to them, in the form of animal (and sometimes human) sacrifices. The Maya worshipped family members who had died.

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...