The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...

In other words, the terrifying ambiguity of the death whistle apparently ignites the imagination as the brain struggles to ...

The remains, mostly boys aged between two and seven years old, were placed inside a box of ashlars in a careful arrangement.

Human sacrifice was a major part of their worship of various deities who represented different animals, aspects of nature, or ...