Archaeologists have unearthed skeletons with their hands apparently bound behind their backs, who were decapitated or had ...

A Canadian tourist was killed and 13 other people were injured — including several Americans — after a crazed gunman held a group hostage atop a pyramid at Mexico’s famous Teotihuacan ruins on Monday ...

Some 8,000 years ago a Stone Age group of hunter-gatherers created a complex underwater burial site where they placed skulls on stakes. Humans all over the world developed different burial ceremonies ...

Related: Archaeological site reveals Europe’s history of animal sacrifices New analysis of skeletons unearthed in Korea reveals entire families were sacrificed about 1,500 years ago in rituals ...

Entire families were sacrificed in Korea about 1,500 years ago in rituals to honour royalty, according to a new analysis of dozens of skeletons unearthed in Gyeongsan in the southeastern region of the ...

A man has admitted stabbing four young children to death at a kindergarten in Uganda, saying he believed killing them as human sacrifices would make him wealthy, prosecutors said Wednesday. The ...