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A Volcano Wiped Out Sunlight 5,000 Years Ago, Triggering Strange SacrificesA vertical shot of the volcanic mountain Feugo erupting at night by a starry sky in the background

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A Volcano Wiped Out Sunlight 5,000 Years Ago, Triggering Strange SacrificesA vertical shot of the volcanic mountain Feugo erupting at night by a starry sky in the background
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A Volcano Wiped Out Sunlight 5,000 Years Ago, Triggering Strange Sacrifices

clock-iconJanuary 16, 2025
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Ancient Peruvian Teenagers Likely Strangled As Sacrifice To Elite RelativesThe photo shows the interior of Huaca Cao Viejo. It is an open space that is walled off. In the far corner, there is a smaller square structure with two smaller square spaces in it, like windows. This structure and the surrounding walls are covered in painted frescos showing intricate designs.

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Ancient Peruvian Teenagers Likely Strangled As Sacrifice To Elite RelativesThe photo shows the interior of Huaca Cao Viejo. It is an open space that is walled off. In the far corner, there is a smaller square structure with two smaller square spaces in it, like windows. This structure and the surrounding walls are covered in painted frescos showing intricate designs.
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Ancient Peruvian Teenagers Likely Strangled As Sacrifice To Elite Relatives

clock-iconDecember 27, 2024
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Forget Stonehenge, Why Was "Seahenge" Built Over 4,000 Years Ago?Holme I timber enclosure with central inverted oak stump.

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Forget Stonehenge, Why Was "Seahenge" Built Over 4,000 Years Ago?Holme I timber enclosure with central inverted oak stump.
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Forget Stonehenge, Why Was "Seahenge" Built Over 4,000 Years Ago?

clock-iconMay 31, 2024
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Pluto’s Gate: The Ancient Doorway To The Underworld That Is Still DeadlyA marble brick with the word "Plutonion" inscribed onto it in Greek and Roman characters sits against a cave-like backdrop.

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Pluto’s Gate: The Ancient Doorway To The Underworld That Is Still DeadlyA marble brick with the word "Plutonion" inscribed onto it in Greek and Roman characters sits against a cave-like backdrop.
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Pluto’s Gate: The Ancient Doorway To The Underworld That Is Still Deadly

clock-iconJune 12, 2023
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Ancient Bog Body May Have Been Victim Of A Grisly Sacrificial RitualAn archeologist in a hi-vis jacket digs up bones from the ground

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Ancient Bog Body May Have Been Victim Of A Grisly Sacrificial RitualAn archeologist in a hi-vis jacket digs up bones from the ground
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Ancient Bog Body May Have Been Victim Of A Grisly Sacrificial Ritual

clock-iconDecember 16, 2022
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Sacrificial Chilli-Eating Monkey Found At Teotihuacán Was Gift From The MayaSpider monkey Maya Teotihuacán

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Sacrificial Chilli-Eating Monkey Found At Teotihuacán Was Gift From The MayaSpider monkey Maya Teotihuacán
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Sacrificial Chilli-Eating Monkey Found At Teotihuacán Was Gift From The Maya

clock-iconNovember 21, 2022
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Inca Child Sacrifices Were Placed On Top Of Volcanoes To Be Struck By Lightningarticle image

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Inca Child Sacrifices Were Placed On Top Of Volcanoes To Be Struck By Lightningarticle image
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Inca Child Sacrifices Were Placed On Top Of Volcanoes To Be Struck By Lightning

clock-iconSeptember 24, 2019

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The Downright Bizarre Reason These Peruvian Skeletons Are Missing Their Feetarticle image

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The Downright Bizarre Reason These Peruvian Skeletons Are Missing Their Feetarticle image
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The Downright Bizarre Reason These Peruvian Skeletons Are Missing Their Feet

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Bizarre Child Sacrifice Confirms The Aztecs Were Terrifyingarticle image

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Bizarre Child Sacrifice Confirms The Aztecs Were Terrifyingarticle image
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Bizarre Child Sacrifice Confirms The Aztecs Were Terrifying

clock-iconJuly 24, 2018
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Aztec War God's "Tower Of Skulls" Even Bigger And More Gruesome Than Thoughtarticle image

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Aztec War God's "Tower Of Skulls" Even Bigger And More Gruesome Than Thoughtarticle image

Aztec War God's "Tower Of Skulls" Even Bigger And More Gruesome Than Thought

clock-iconJune 28, 2018

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Evidence Of Ancient Child Sacrifice Unearthed In Peruarticle image

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Evidence Of Ancient Child Sacrifice Unearthed In Peruarticle image
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Evidence Of Ancient Child Sacrifice Unearthed In Peru

clock-iconMarch 23, 2018

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Haunting Spiral-Shaped Mass Grave Discovered In Mexico Cityarticle image

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Haunting Spiral-Shaped Mass Grave Discovered In Mexico Cityarticle image
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Haunting Spiral-Shaped Mass Grave Discovered In Mexico City

clock-iconFebruary 2, 2018

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Turkeys Were Domesticated Not For Meat, But For Ancient Mesoamerican Ceremoniesarticle image

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Turkeys Were Domesticated Not For Meat, But For Ancient Mesoamerican Ceremoniesarticle image
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Turkeys Were Domesticated Not For Meat, But For Ancient Mesoamerican Ceremonies

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Prehistoric Burial Site Turned Into Digital 3D Modelarticle image

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Prehistoric Burial Site Turned Into Digital 3D Modelarticle image
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Prehistoric Burial Site Turned Into Digital 3D Model

clock-iconDecember 6, 2017

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Maya Child Sacrifices Were Buried With Stunning Volcanic Rocksarticle image

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Maya Child Sacrifices Were Buried With Stunning Volcanic Rocksarticle image
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Maya Child Sacrifices Were Buried With Stunning Volcanic Rocks

clock-iconSeptember 13, 2017