The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

“This study turns that story on its head and reveals the deep connections between ritual sacrifice and the cycles of human death and rebirth described in sacred Maya texts.” There are several ...

On the other hand, Varela Scherrer, a specialist in Mayan culture, specified that after the excavation of the ritual deposits, a procedure of “sifting with water and floating” was carried out ...

The study, published in Nature, identified that many of the sacrificed individuals were closely related, including two pairs of identical twins, highlighting themes in Maya mythology. The remains ...