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Grim Discoveries Point to Child Sacrifice and Human Trafficking in Ancient Maya Civilization

Hundreds of human bones lay scattered across the floor of a cave in Belize, fittingly called the Midnight Terror Cave. Ancient Maya would gather here to make human sacrifices to a rain, water, and lightning god that they called Chaac. Michael Prout, an archaeologist at California State University, recently described disturbing discoveries about the victims of these sacrifices at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

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