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Ritual sacrifice at Chichén Itzá Ancient Maya genomes reveal the practice of male twin sacrifice and the enduring genetic legacy of colonial-era epidemics ...
A study of human remains deposited over 800 years at the Maya city of Chichen Itza challenges long-held assumptions about the age and gender of sacrifice victims. The Great Pyramid (El Castillo ...
An international research team genetically tested 64 children sacrificed at Chichen Itza, uncovering facts about ritual sacrifices and the modern scars of colonial epidemics. Kendra Leon Barrionuevo / ...
The ruins of Chichen Itza in eastern Mexico were built about 1,200 years ago. ... it’s been speculated that the flat area may have been used to sacrifice a human heart.
The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in modern-day Mexico is inextricable in popular imagination from the spectre of human sacrifice. Thanks to lurid 16th-century accounts from Spanish ...
Chichen Itza is known for its stunning architecture, including an impressive pyramid structure now called El Castillo. Nearby is a sacred water-filled sinkhole called a cenote, where the bodies of ...
Researchers note that twins played a prominent role in ancient Mayan origin stories and spirituality, and that the sacrifice of twins is a theme in the group’s 2,000-year-old religious text.
DNA reveals surprise about the children ancient Mayans chose to sacrifice. Researchers analyzing DNA at ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá, a site for human sacrifices, found that young boys ...
A new analysis of ancient DNA from the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico challenges long-held misconceptions about the victims of ritual sacrifice.
Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichén Itzá was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual ...
R itual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent ...
Now, DNA obtained from 64 of them is offering insight into child sacrifice at Chichen Itza in the centuries before Europeans. Maya sacrifice of twin boys revealed by DNA from Chichen Itza.