Archaeologists have found evidence of a highly gendered Stone Age society in China about 3,800 to 4,300 years ago, with male and female sacrificial victims chosen for separate purposes. Researchers ...
A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...
Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Research into the Shimao culture ...
Outgrowth of a symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 2005. Contents New perspectives on human sacrifice and postsacrifical body treatments in ancient Maya ...
Reprinted from Drum, October 1974. Compilation originally published in South Africa in 1993. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...
Early Christian writers condemned pagan sacrifices while debating among themselves the meaning of the death of Jesus.
Indian worshippers hurled stones at each other to mark an ancient human sacrifice ritual. Local men took part in ‘Pathron Ka Mela,' a unique centuries-old festival held after Diwali in Shimla District ...
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