Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of barbaric human sacrifices dating back to the Iron Age after digging up the skeletal remains of a young woman. Researchers from Bournemouth University made the ...

Animal sacrifice is legal in the United States, but only because of a landmark Supreme Court ruling. When a city attempted to ban a religious ritual, the case escalated all the way to the highest ...

Genetic analyses of ancient graves in Peru reveal new insights into human sacrifice rituals, according to a study. Photo from El Brujo archaeological complex About 1,500 years ago, on the coast of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman-era walled complex beneath Germany’s Frankfurt with shafts and pits containing what may have ...

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Some 8,000 years ago a Stone Age group of hunter-gatherers created a complex underwater burial site where they placed skulls on stakes.

SAN PABLO — Authorities here raided a storage unit that had apparently been converted to a chamber of animal sacrifice, complete with the severed heads of goats and chickens, a bloody cauldron, a bag ...