From Mars to the Maya Scientists at Hewlett-Packard's crystal lab had tested thousands of specimens, but they'd never seen anything like this. The Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull defied everything they ...

So began the latest astonishing twist in our quest to find the truth about the 13 crystal skulls said to have come into the possession of the Mayan people, one of the ancient world's most ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...