stands at the sacrifice site of Pampa la Cruz, a hilltop overlooking his hometown of Huanchaco. As a child, Prieto would explore the ruins of nearby Chan Chan, the ancient Chimú capital.

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

When we think about animal sacrifice, ancient societies such as the Greeks come to mind. But why did they ritually slaughter animals? What did this do for their society?

A pregnant woman's dismembered remains from over 1,000 years ago, along with unusual burial artifacts spanning multiple ...

THE ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis hosts what is believed to be the oldest ‘Gate to Hell’ on Earth. It is a passage once used for animal sacrifices to the Greek god of death, Pluto ...

The burial of a young woman, possibly as young as 17, was identified as “burial 10” and dated to between 771 and 953 A.D., according to the study. Fetal cranial fragments were found near her pelvis, ...

The name Iphigenia has been synonymous with ancient Greek tragedy and mythology, as well as the concept of sacrifice, for millennia.

It involved the sacrifice of family members. Historians and archaeologists are aware of similar stories concerning ancient peoples in South America. National Geographic reminds us that in 1487 ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into a ditch before burying them.

Increased levels of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere would’ve caused immense crop failure, potentially leading to the “sacrifice ... of the worries of these ancient people—DNA suggests ...

Which reminds me… Kukulkan demands human sacrifices. It is a great honour ... and similar to the Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC).