National Geographic Explorer Guillermo de Anda examines a cache of ritual vessels inside the Balamku (Jaguar God) cave in Yucatán, Mexico. The objects have been untouched for at least 1,000 years.

The researchers note that descendants of the Maya still practice a similar ritual today. On May 3, or the Day of the Holy Cross, people visit caves to pray for rain and a good harvest at the end ...

The cave—and the remains within in it—were first discovered in the 1990s at Dos Pilas in Peten, part of a stretch of roughly 12 caves the Maya people frequented between 400 B.C. and 250 A.D.

Skulls found in Guatemala ‘blood cave’ likely sacrificed to rain god in brutal Mayan ritual. Researchers say bones found scattered in Cueva de Sangre show signs of ritual dismemberment ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god.. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

Hundreds of Mayan artifacts have been found underwater in a Guatemalan lake, according to the Daily Mail.. Among the trove of relics were weaponry, like a stone mace head and an obsidian blade, which ...

According to researchers, the ritual complex in the Manot Cave symbolizes the transition from unstructured worship to the dawn of institutionalized public rituals. Israel National News - Arutz Sheva.

A distinctive rock in the deepest part of a northern Israeli cave suggests the space may have been used for communal rituals about 35,000 years ago, according to a group of researchers that ...

That encompasses the time during which collective rituals occurred at the back of the cave. Earlier fossil finds put H. sapiens at this cave at least 50,000 years ago (SN: 1/28/15).