A new study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology on September 20 details the discovery of blue cotton fibers in the teeth of the humans that ...

DOS PILAS, GUATEMALA—In the 1990s, archaeologists made a grisly discovery when they entered a cave beneath the Maya site of Dos Pilas in Petén. The team encountered hundreds of fragmented human bones ...

Imagine a culture rich with life, yet marked by human sacrifices. In Guatemala, an ancient cave has hidden a chilling reminder of the brutal rituals once practiced by the Maya to appease an ancient ...

What was a buried treasure yesterday, is exposed to the bright light of day today. Robber Barron Cave on the north side was an almost secret resource until a teenaged girl on a field trip got trapped ...

ATLANTA — Grim discoveries in Belize’s aptly named Midnight Terror Cave shed light on a long tradition of child sacrifices in ancient Maya society. A large ...

More than 15 years after its discovery, Belize's Midnight Terror Cave is still leaving clues about more than 100 people who were sacrificed to the Maya rain god there ...

Kastalia Medrano is a Manhattan-based journalist whose writing has appeared at outlets like Pacific Standard, VICE, National Geographic, the Paris Review Daily, and Real Life magazine. Her RTs = ...