While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

Researchers find a new insight into the burial practices of Mayan culture through the analysis of human remains near the ...

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An ancient altar has been unearthed that is believed to have been used to sacrifice children in an ... and cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and the elite of Teotihuacan between ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala uncover a Teotihuacan altar in Tikal, revealing ancient cultural and spiritual ties with the Maya ...

highlighting themes in Maya mythology. The remains date back to between 600 CE and 1100 CE, suggesting the sacrifices spanned a 500-year period, potentially linked to agricultural cycles or ...

Rather than signs of sacrifice, the findings point to a practice of transporting ... these individuals were not killed but ...

The Maya kings became the high priests during the Classic period (250-900 AD). During the post Classic period (950-1539 AD) gods and human sacrifice were even more important. The Maya believed the ...

and ceremonies that featured a ball game and human sacrifice. The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics ...