Before Christopher Columbus's arrival in 1492, the Americas were home to advanced civilizations with sophisticated social ...

Mexico’s Maya and Aztec pyramids deserve a spot high on your travel list ... While visitors are no longer allowed to climb the steps or access the Temple of Kukulcán at the top of the pyramid, they ...

Kozhikode: The planned rooster sacrifice as part of an annual ritual at a temple in Kerala's Kozhikode ... saying, "Just as human sacrifice is now recognised and condemned as murder, the outdated ...

In response, the Edachery Police issued a notice to the temple, ensuring no animals or birds would be sacrificed, according to a PETA statement released on Monday. PETA India had worked with concerned ...

Together they travel through Mexico City chasing a ritual murderer whose peculiarity is to recreate ancient Aztec sacrifices. The tv series is based on the best-selling novels of the Mexican writer ...

This is why he was often depicted with empty eyes in Aztec art. Ultimately, the sacrifice of the deities set the Sun in motion, and their sacrifices were, in turn, rewarded by various human sacrifices ...

The remains of the large metropolis include multiple plazas, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl ... They are comparable to the animal sacrifices conducted by the Aztec empire a millennium later.

Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout ...

IFLScience needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly animal sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period.

Sacrifices were government-sanctioned ritual performances staged at the heart of the Moon Pyramid. Teotihuacán thrived between 100 B.C. and 650 A.D., more than 1,000 years before the eminent Aztec ...

Notably, this came in the way of the Thrissur Pooram, Kerala’s largest religious festival which was started by Sakthan Thampuran, the Maharaja of the erstwhile Kochi state, at the Vadakkumnathan ...