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

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

Robby Soave delivers radar about an ancient altar found in Guatemala that was apparently used for "child sacrifices," ...

An archeologist quoted in a CBS News report about human sacrifice altars in Guatemala seemingly claimed the sacrificing ...

CBS News ran a story on a recently uncovered altar from the Teotihuacan culture in present day Mexico. It’s located in Tikal National Park, Guatemala, which was the heart of Mayan culture, showing ...

An enigmatic altar found in an ancient Mayan city contains bodies — and wasn’t made by the Maya. The ornately decorated structure may hold the key to unraveling the geopolitics of the time.

More than 5,500 years old, the wooden board is one of the most ancient preserved doors in Europe. Archaeologist Jakob Messikommer uncovered the prehistoric object from the marshes in Wetzikon in ...

A new discovery unearthed by an international team of archeologists in the heart of modern-day Guatemala has put another piece in the puzzle revealing a turbulent period of time of the ancient ...

the centre of Mayan civilisation, shedding new light on the interactions between the two ancient cultures. The discovery, announced by Guatemala’s Culture and Sports Ministry, was made within ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...