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In the 1990s, archaeologists made a grisly discovery when they entered a cave beneath the Maya site of Dos Pilas in Petén.

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“The types of skeletal elements present, trauma, arrangement of bones, and bone modifications, strongly support the sacrificial nature of the deposition,” the researchers wrote. Ellen ...

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Archaeologists found items known to have been used in rituals, such as obsidian blades and red ochre, in the cave.