In an urban housing complex dating back to the 4th century AD in the middle of the jungle of Guatemalaarchaeologists ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

The Pyramids of Giza rise from the west bank of the Nile River almost as an act of defiance, perfectly symmetrical behemoths imposed upon a flat, barren landscape. The Great Pyramid—the oldest ...

A stunning example of this phenomenon in 2024 was a stone pyramid in Mexico succumbing to an increasingly chaotic global ...

A 15-meter-tall pyramid at the archaeological site of Ihuatzio in western Mexico collapsed in late July 2024 after heavy ...

In pre-Columbian civilisations, however, human sacrifice remained endemic. It was perhaps even more extreme among the Aztecs, but in Inca culture it seems to have been preceded by a duel between ...

But the faithful, in order to exercise their common priesthood fully, should unite their sacrifice to his and thus offer themselves, also, to God the Father: "I exhort you . . . to present your ...

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Although historians now understand that the pyramids were built by skilled and salaried laborers, the opposite impression has persisted for millennia. Although it took centuries to correct the record ...