Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Ritual Aztec whistles produced a brain-scrambling "scream," according to a new study. The objects were used during human sacrifices and may have prepared victims for their supposed descent to ...

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

Oppression studies dictates that Western values, culture, and even science aren’t any better than others’, and since they’ve ...

when Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico he encountered an Aztec civilization dedicated to the practice of human sacrifice on a shocking scale. Tens of thousands of people were hauled to the top of ...

In pre-Columbian civilisations, however, human sacrifice remained endemic. It was perhaps even more extreme among the Aztecs, but in Inca culture it seems to have been preceded by a duel between ...