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The pleasure’s all Mayan! Sacrificing the cocktail bar, Jonathan Coates treks into Mexico’s ancient cities before having a ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” the ...

Researchers have analysed the remains of 64 ancient sacrificed individuals at Chichén Itzá, revealing that all were male, contrary to previous beliefs that females were also sacrificed. The ...

With shouts and cries of “jail, jail, jail”, “lock her up” and “sacrifice, sacrifice”, the crowd, gathered in the esplanade of Chichén Itzá, expressed their anger “because this ...

The name translates roughly as In the Mouth of the Well of the Itza (the Itza being a branch ... The Sacred Cenote seems to have been a place of sacrifice, as well as the main water source for ...

The circular stone was found at the Chichen Itza archaeological site and is thought to be around 1,200 years old. At its centre are two players in elaborate headgear surrounded by hieroglyphic ...