An archeologist quoted in a CBS News report about human sacrifice altars in Guatemala seemingly claimed the sacrificing culture wasn’t violent, adding that they were “connecting with the celestial ...

Experts have revealed the gruesome details of a 15th-century ritual sacrifice site in Peru that contains the remains of more than 140 children. In a new study on the archaeological site at ...

Historical, anthropological, and folkloric data are replete with accounts of various rituals in every human society as far back as records existed. Such rituals were performed for various reasons, ...

Sacrifice did not begin as a divine instruction. It began as a human response to vulnerability. Faced with forces beyond control—weather, fertility, illness, loss—human beings reached for a way to ...

Humans have a penchant for sacrifice, but it’s the Lord who makes it possible. Over the years, one thing that has fascinated me about the gospel is the way it takes our familiar human longings and ...

Watching Mel Gibson’s movie Apocalypto is not for the fainthearted or squeamish. Set among the Mayans in the 16th century, the film portrays their customs of human sacrifice with unsparing realism.