The Aztecs and their world of rational urban planning, sophisticated sanitation, running water, daily baths, dominant temples and insatiable human sacrifice ... that took place in and around ...

ritual human sacrifices targeted poor people, helping the powerful control the lower classes and keep them in their place. "By using human sacrifice to punish taboo violations, demoralize the ...

The Hebrew Bible mentions human sacrifice being carried out by Israelites several times; however, researchers do not agree on how often the practice occurred or whether it took place at all.

But one detail was curiously out of place: Locals, and then looters ... jade artifacts—and gruesome evidence of human sacrifice. Before excavations were suspended earlier this year due to ...

It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to ...

They cross the line that separates civilization from savagery, criminal justice from black magic, accountability from ritualistic human sacrifice. They become false religion, dependent on totems ...

Kerala Human sacrifice story: Pathanamthitta human sacrifice ... a ritual mass suicide of eleven family members a family from Burari, Delhi took place. Such incidents, that shock the human ...