"In Maya ritual, body parts are just as valuable as the whole body," she said. In the early 1990s, a survey underneath the archaeological site of Dos Pilas in Petén, Guatemala, revealed more than ...

Ancient Maya burials, once thought to show human sacrifice, may instead reflect ancestral ties, according to a theory by Dr.

Archaeologists found items known to have been used in rituals, such as obsidian blades and red ochre, in the cave. Human remains in Guatemala's Cueva de Sangre reveal ancient Maya ritual sacrifices.

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

Hidden beneath the long-lost city of Dos Pilas, this site reveals a darker facet of Maya rituals than previously known, with dismembered bodies and symbolic offerings left in sacred darkness.

Or, as Maya Deren would have it, the avant-garde is the only way to accurately portray the most feral cinematic concepts. It’s the most constructive possible approach (because it contains more ...

As described in ancient Maya texts, ball games often had religious meaning—pitting good against evil. It's thought the ball games sometimes ended in human sacrifice, most famously in ritual ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed fragmented skulls and numerous human bones scattered on the floor of Cueva de Sangre, a cave in Petén, Guatemala, where people were sacrificed in a Maya ritual ...

It is the remains of a 20-year-old woman known as the Crystal Maiden. She was sacrificed by an ancient Maya priest as part of a religious ritual more than 1,000 years ago. Archaeologist Holley Moyes ...