With supernatural powers, they are able to undergo a series of sacrifices and resurrections in order to outsmart the Mayan gods of the underworld to avenge their father. Subterranean sites such as ...

Archaeologists had known that the Maya regarded both caves and cenotes as mouths that opened ... and a two-edged knife probably used for sacrifices, all neatly placed there centuries earlier.

highlighting themes in Maya mythology. The remains date back to between 600 CE and 1100 CE, suggesting the sacrifices spanned a 500-year period, potentially linked to agricultural cycles or ...

Nearby is a sacred water-filled sinkhole called a cenote, where the bodies ... in the 20th century that the ancient Maya preferred female sacrifices. The researchers also compared the genomes ...

The findings "obviously flew in the face of the argument that it was mostly young virgin women being thrown into the cenote," an idea ... children were selected for sacrifice" here, rituals ...

A day trip to the Mayan city of Chichen Itza starts ... The Cenote Sagrado, which translates as Sacred Cenote, was a pilgrimage site used for sacrifices and ceremonial offerings to the rain ...