It’s an apropos description of the cave former purpose, as a depository of fragments of human remains sacrificed by the Maya people to ... on the left side of a skull’s forehead.

According to legend, thirteen crystal skulls contained the complete knowledge of our galaxy. Twelve represented worlds where intelligent life existed, while the thirteenth skull connected them all.

Now, researchers have presented evidence showing the cave was used by the Maya people for ritual human ... been subject to ritual dismemberment. One skull fragment, for instance, bore a mark ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery paints a chilling picture: The people here were sacrificed during the dry season to appease the Maya rain god ... like a hatchet — on the skull, Fricano said.

This spring, archaeologists working at the nearby city of Cival uncovered evidence that distinctively Mayan art and writing may have developed as early as 300 b.c., and a wall painting dating to ...

the forest rises up in a dense wall of grasping roots, spindly branches and veils of brown and green. Beyond it lie the ruins of an old Maya city, barely a 15-minute walk from the busy roadway but ...

A skull found in the wall of an Illinois home in the 1970s was identified this week as that of a Civil War-era teenage girl — whose corpse was likely snatched by grave robbers long ago ...

BATAVIA, Ill. (WLS/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - The skull of an Indiana teen was found in the wall of a home near Chicago. Officials in Kane County have solved a decades-old cold case involving a ...

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago ...