Skulls found at an ancient Mayan site have revealed evidence of a gruesome ritual from more than a thousand years ago. Four months ago, archaeologists with the Mexican National Institute of ...

Crystal skulls arrived on the archaeological scene in the 19th century. ... or “the place of fallen stones” in ancient ...

I had almost forgotten the Crystal Skulls! In this week’s Skeptical Inquirer (Vol.37 No.3) there is a report of an archeologist suing the makers of the Indiana Jones movies for a piece of their ...

In the early 1990s, a survey underneath the archaeological site of Dos Pilas in Petén, Guatemala, revealed more than a dozen caves that were used by the Maya between 400 B.C. and A.D. 250.

PALENQUE, Mexico — There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls that, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth — a tale so strange ...

The skulls were artificially elongated, ... Decapitated skulls — full of cavities and gems — from ancient Maya uncovered in Mexico. Brendan Rascius. August 25, 2023 at 2:52 PM.

Although Mayan written sources clearly document human sacrificial rituals, many details about the Mesoamerican civilization’s ceremonial victims remain unknown. Thanks to new genetic analysis ...

Over 1,000 years ago, multiple Mayan men were decapitated at a temple in modern-day Mexico. Now, archaeologists have unearthed their skulls, shedding light on the culture and health of the Mayans ...