Over 1,600 mysterious stone structures dot Saudi Arabia’s arid landscape. They have managed to puzzle scholars for decades. Now, after a recent excavation, researchers have discovered the likely ...

Whether it was to appease a deity or honor the dead, ritual animal sacrifice was widespread in the ancient world. But there is a region where it appears that hardly any of these rituals occurred for ...

In the rural mountains of eastern Turkey, stone walls peek out from the formidable mountains. Here, thousands of years of history has remained almost entirely untouched in the form of stone fortresses ...

(CNN) — The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other ...

A series of ancient stone monuments in Saudi Arabia were likely used for ritual sacrifices, according to a new study. Photo from the journal PLOS One Over 1,600 mysterious stone structures dot Saudi ...

In the heart of one of Sao Paulo's favelas, Sister Maria Oliveira ladles steaming feijoada into bowls for hundreds of hungry families. Her soup kitchen, Projeto Esperança (Project Hope), represents a ...

The Mayan people may have preferred to sacrifice boys, a new study has discovered. The findings were made in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, which used to be home to the ancient city of Chichén Itzá. The ...

A 3,000-year-old mummy — purportedly buried in a ritual sacrifice — was discovered by archeologists who dug through eight tons of trash at a garbage dump in Peru. Traces of the grisly artifact were ...

Burnt offerings, including lots of horses, fill a courtyard at Casas de Turuñuelo. Fascinating finds. I had never heard of horse sacrifice, but I suppose humans develop real attachments to the beasts ...