The ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá, long known as a site of human sacrifice, has fascinated millions of visitors from ...

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well ...

Which reminds me… Kukulkan demands human sacrifices ... Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath ...

and ceremonies that featured a ball game and human sacrifice. The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics ...