A wooden canoe surrounded by human and animal skeletons near the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá may have been used as part of a ritual. In 2021, divers in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula discovered the ...

An "extraordinary" nose ornament made from human bone was discovered at the site of an ancient Maya city in Mexico. Researchers found the unique artifact during work at the Palenque Archaeological ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed fragmented skulls and numerous human bones scattered on the floor of Cueva de Sangre, a cave in Petén, Guatemala, where people were sacrificed in a Maya ritual to ...

2L Summer Husein and Maya Simek, Director of the Human Trafficking Clinic, recently co-authored an article on human trafficking in the latest edition of the Cincinnati Bar Association Report. The ...

A large, charred deposit containing royal human remains and ornaments found inside a Maya temple-pyramid was likely part of a "dramatic and public ritual" during a regime change. Archaeologists ...