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

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

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The discovery was made in Mexico. ArchaeologistJacob Welch spotted a human-sized Maya Mask in 2017, when he was excavating Ucanha, a site on the Yucatán Peninsula near the coast of the Gulf of ...

"The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time ...

Little by little researchers are unraveling the mysteries of the Maya culture of Central America. A new discovery unearthed by an international team of archeologists in the heart of modern-day ...

the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909. The causes of what University of Pennsylvania archaeologist Robert Sharer calls “one of the most profound cultural failures in human history” have ...

Previously, the other human remains within this grave have been ... Seeking an alternative explanation, the study author points out that the Maya saw the body as divisible into multiple parts.