Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first discovered in the 1990s during a survey of the archaeological site in Petén. Bones ...

View post: One of the Greatest Bass Solos of All Time Belongs to a 1971 Classic — And It Still Rocks Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently ...

Ritual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent girls. In ...

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Guatemala’s Cueva de Sangre, translated as “blood cave,” isn’t just a clever name. It’s an apropos description of the cave former purpose, as a depository of fragments of human remains sacrificed by ...

Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichen Itz was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual life ...

Water and ritual -- Classic Maya political histories -- Maya rituals : past and present -- Community and the Maya : the ritual history of Saturday Creek -- Local rulers and the Maya : the ritual ...