A blood cave in Guatemala has found to be home to scattered remains of human sacrifices rituals. With hundreds of humans ...

Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of more ...

Guatemala’s Cueva de Sangre, translated as “blood cave,” isn’t just a clever name. It’s an apropos description of the cave ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual ...

Deep in an underground cave in Guatemala, archaeologists stumbled upon hundreds of fragmented human bones showing signs of ...

The discovery paints a chilling picture: The people here were sacrificed during the dry season to appease the Maya rain god — ...

A similar mark on an infant’s hip bone was likely made around the time of death. That the bones were ... were likely intended to appease the Mayan rain god Chaac, but further studies, including ...

The bones weren’t buried and that the injuries occurred around the time of death, leading those studying ... people to caves to plead with the Maya rain god for enough rain to supply a bountiful ...