500-year-old Inca ceramics symbolize imperial power and ritual sacrifice: Study
A new study reveals that the capacocha ritual of child sacrifice, practiced by the Incas, involved ceremonial use of ceramic ...
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Top 10 Most Travel-Worthy UNESCO Sites Around the World
The site’s dramatic setting, nestled between peaks shrouded in mist, adds to its mystique. Visitors can explore well-preserved ruins, including the Temple of the Sun and the Room of the Three Windows, ...
A deep dive into the Yucatán
Beyond the Mexican peninsula’s famous coast lies a spectacular, less-visited land of Mayan ruins, secret pools and somnolent ...
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Mass child sacrifices in 15th-century Mexico were a desperate attempt to appease rain god and end devastating drought
The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...
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Cuzco exhibition sheds light on shared beliefs of ancient Shu, Inca civilizations
Visitors admire a replica of a gold mask from Sanxingdui at an ongoing exhibition at the Inka Museum in Cuzco, Peru. The ...
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Centuries-old mass grave of children found in Mexico. They were sacrificed to rain god
In 1978, workers for a light and power company stumbled upon a sculpture of Coyolxauhqui, an Aztec-era goddess, at the Templo ...
20 of the World’s Greatest Lost Cities
Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...