Cisterns, or chultún ... of sacrificing close child relatives is linked to a sacred Mayan text, the Popol Vuh, which describes the sacrifice of a pair of twins who lost to the gods in a ballgame.

An ancient altar has been unearthed that is believed to have been used to sacrifice children in an ... and cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and the elite of Teotihuacan between ...

Cisterns, or chultún ... practice of sacrificing close child relatives to a sacred Mayan text, the Popol Vuh, which detailed ...

highlighting themes in Maya mythology. The remains date back to between 600 CE and 1100 CE, suggesting the sacrifices spanned a 500-year period, potentially linked to agricultural cycles or ...

Temple I, or Temple of the Great Jaguar, in northern Tikal National Park, in Peten, Guatemala (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) From ...

these people died as human sacrifices. The cave also helped Jaime develop a theory to answer a nagging question in archeology. That is, why ancient Mayan civilization began to decline after ...