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More than 100 Maya boys — some as young as 3 — were sacrificed and buried in a pit in Chichen Itza,...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoA Maya pyramid in Mexico that includes tourists in the foreground. . A mass burial contains the...
Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals an unexpected finding
CNN via AOL· 8 hours agoA new analysis of ancient DNA from the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico challenges...
Ancient Genomes Reveal Which Children the Maya Selected for Sacrifice
New York Times· 12 hours agoIn the spring of 1967, workers building a small airport behind Chichén Itzá, the ancient Maya city...
DNA reveals ritual of sacrificing boys, including twins, in ancient Mayan city, scientists say
CBS News· 9 hours agoThe city of Chichén Itzá, built on what is now Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, has been investigated by...
See inside the ancient temples of the Americas
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 6 days agoTreasures of the ancients N. Rotteveel/Alamy The Aztec, Incan and Mayan empires left behind magnificent ruins across Mexico, Central and South America,...
4,000-year-old Cretan hilltop mystifies Greek archaeologists. It could spell trouble for new airport
Associated Press· 1 day agoA big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling...
DNA reveals mystery of Maya human sacrifice
Boing Boing· 8 hours agoThe popular imagination holds that the ancient Maya sacrificed only young women and girls at their temples in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. "There were two big moments of surprise ...
The world’s most intact archaeological discoveries, ranked
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIncredibly, only the outer few centimetres of the wood were degraded by bacteria. 19: Fossilised...
Maya sacrifice of twin boys revealed by DNA from Chichen Itza
Reuters via AOL· 12 hours agoIn 1967, an underground cistern known as a chultun was discovered near a sacred body of water at...
Shigir Idol: World's oldest wood sculpture has mysterious carved faces and once stood 17 feet tall
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA tall carved statue in a museum. Name: Shigir Idol What it is: The world's oldest known wooden...
