The ancient Mayan city of Chichén ... burial site near the Sacred Cenote, a massive sinkhole in the ceremonial center of Chichén Itzá where other human sacrifices were previously discovered ...

The Maya practiced human sacrifice to seek favor from their gods ... unlike remains from the nearby Sacred Cenote. “We couldn’t find any cut marks or any lesions that would point to specific ...

By analyzing the genomes of child remains found near a Sacred Cenote ... relatives is linked to a sacred Mayan text, the Popol Vuh, which describes the sacrifice of a pair of twins who lost ...

Important, too, was the Sacred Cenote (also known as the Well ... of twins in Mayan mythology and Classic Maya art. For example, twins and sacrifice are central themes in the sacred Mayan Book ...

Nearby is a sacred water-filled sinkhole called a cenote, where the bodies ... in the 20th century that the ancient Maya preferred female sacrifices. The researchers also compared the genomes ...

The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice ... Itzá’s sacred sinkhole, or cenote, said Rubén Mendoza, an ...

“This is the first evidence of Maya sacrifices involving twins ... individuals found in a large sinkhole known as the Sacred Cenote included males and females ranging in age from children ...

Archaeologists had known that the Maya regarded both caves and cenotes as mouths that opened ... and a two-edged knife probably used for sacrifices, all neatly placed there centuries earlier.

Dredging of the site’s Sacred Cenote in the early 20th Century ... in the origin stories and spiritual life of the ancient Maya. Twin sacrifice is a central theme in the sacred K’iche ...

Several are thought to have been used by the ancient Mayans for human sacrifices and previous expeditions have found human bones in cenotes beneath Chichen Itza.