A DNA study has revealed that a pre-Hispanic child sacrifice victim found in a "unique" burial had closely related parents.

Tikal, an ancient city-state deep in the jungle of Guatemala, was once a powerful hub of the Maya civilization. During its peak, between 200 and 900 C.E., it was a major political, economic, and ...

This ancient society tried to stop El Niño—with child sacrifice. Desperate to make the torrential rains stop, the Chimú people of Peru offered up their most precious resource to the gods ...

Among the bodies found in an elite area were the remains of a male child, who was between two and five-years-old when he died. A 1974 study concluded that the body’s positioning suggested he was ...

The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other ...

Child remains found at ancient sacrifice altar hidden in national park. The remains of three children were found at the altar in Tikal National Park in Guatemala. Sonia Prez D.

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 ...

A 3,000-year-old mummy — purportedly buried in a ritual sacrifice — was discovered by archeologists who dug through eight tons of trash at a garbage dump in Peru. Traces of the grisly a… ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA from the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico challenges long-held misconceptions about the victims of ritual sacrifice.