An archeologist quoted in a CBS News report about human sacrifice altars in Guatemala seemingly claimed the sacrificing culture wasn’t violent, adding that they were “connecting with the celestial ...
Early Christian writers condemned pagan sacrifices while debating among themselves the meaning of the death of Jesus.
Archaeologists working at a 15th-century site in Peru have unearthed the remains of 137 children and 200 llamas in what’s now considered the largest mass child sacrifice known from the New World—and ...
Historical, anthropological, and folkloric data are replete with accounts of various rituals in every human society as far back as records existed. Such rituals were performed for various reasons, ...
What is believed to be the biggest child sacrifice in history has been discovered in Peru, with skeletons of over 140 children unearthed at the archaeological site of Huanchaquito-Las Llamas. The mass ...
Watching Mel Gibson’s movie Apocalypto is not for the fainthearted or squeamish. Set among the Mayans in the 16th century, the film portrays their customs of human sacrifice with unsparing realism.
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