Secrets of maya human sacrifices uncovered in new study

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DNA testing of dozens of sacrificed ch

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BBC Science Focus Magazine

09 July, 2024

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BBC History Magazine

From sexual orgies to satan incarnated as a snake, lurid depictions of ‘voodoo’ in north america long titillated and shocked readers. as david g cox explains, they were also wielded as justifications for racist oppression during the social and political upheavals of the 19th-century us

On 2 January 1893, the black American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass delivered a lecture on Haiti to an audience in Chicago. It was widely alleged, he reflected, that the Caribbean repub

BBC Countryfile Magazine

Bronze age britons travelled for large parties, show new findings

Bronze Age Britons travelled long distances to attend communal feasts of grand proportions, sometimes with livestock in tow, shows new studies. A team of archaeologists from Cardiff University conduct

The Week UK

Unearthing atrocity: the scandal of 796 dead irish babies

At St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, the bodies of hundreds of infants born to unmarried mothers were dumped in a disused sewer. Now, thanks to the heroic efforts of one woman, they will be given a proper burial.

The Critic

Don’t keep it in the family

I N SEPTEMBER, THE NHS “GENOMICS EDUCATION Programme” ...

The TLS

Spirit levels

Shamanism across many cultures

Tabletop Gaming

Pre yupana

Well, it certainly looks like a game. But is it? The archaeological object illustrated here is of a type found frequently in the Central Andes, homeland of the Inca Empire from about 1400 to 1553. Spe