A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds ...

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the rural mountains of eastern Turkey, stone walls peek out from the formidable mountains. Here, thousands of years of history ...

Inhabitants of the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá are well-known for their practice of ritual human sacrifice. The most prevalent notion in the popular imagination is that of young Maya women being ...

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 ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Rodrigo Barquera, a researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, about a study revealing a surprise about ancient Mayan sacrifices.

A team of archaeologists has made a groundbreaking discovery in Israel, uncovering the remains of four donkeys that were ritually sacrificed over 4,500 years ago. The donkeys, found buried under a ...

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

in Genesis 22:1–19, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham, who had waited decades for the birth of Isaac, the son promised by God to carry on his ...