The Mayan people may have preferred to sacrifice boys, a new study has discovered. The findings were made in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, which used to be home to the ancient city of Chichén Itzá ...

A study of human remains deposited over 800 years at the Maya city of Chichen Itza challenges long-held assumptions about the age and gender of sacrifice victims.

Researchers note that twins played a prominent role in ancient Mayan origin stories and spirituality, and that the sacrifice of twins is a theme in the group’s 2,000-year-old religious text.

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican culture on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. The city of Chichén Itzá emerged around 250 CE and ended in 1697 CE with the Spanish conquest of the region.

Photos show the skeleton at the bottom of the ceramic vessel with its limbs tucked in close. Human sacrifice was a common practice in many ancient societies, including in the Mayan Civilization ...

Human sacrifice was a common practice in many ancient societies, including in the Mayan Civilization, according to a 2011 study published in the journal Childhood in the Past.

Human sacrifice was a common practice in many ancient societies, including in the Mayan Civilization, according to a 2011 study published in the journal Childhood in the Past.

Archaeologists have found more than a dozen stone knives in an ancient Maya city near a sacrificial altar. Researchers made the find in the pre-Hispanic settlement of Kulubá, in the southern ...