The popular imagination holds that the ancient Maya sacrificed only young women and girls at their temples in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. That’s a myth, according to a new study of ancient DNA from 64 individuals who were sacrificed and interred in an underground cavern in the Maya city of Chichén Itzá’s more than 1,000 years ago. — Read the rest
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