Long bones, like tibias and femurs, were placed in one part of the system, while skulls were in another area. Some skulls were even stacked on top of each other. The remains found by INAH researchers.

Chopped-up skulls found in Maya 'blood cave' were a ritual offering for a good harvest, ... On the ground in one part of the cave, excavators found a series of four stacked skull caps.

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

Even the way the bones were placed within the cave, such as four stacked skull caps in one spot, sparked questions. The experts conclude that the intense injuries, sheer volume of bones, and the ...

Archaeologists discovered a series of stacked skulls in Cueva de Sangre in Guatemala. (Image credit: James E. Brady) Some human remains were also arranged in a nonanatomic way, pointing to a ...

Only a few steps away, in the subterranean charnel house, more than a thousand skulls stand neatly stacked. 610 of these have been delicately hand painted, the largest intact collection of painted ...

Stacked human skulls were found in a cave in Guatemala. | Credit: James E. Brady. Deep in an underground cave in Guatemala, archaeologists stumbled upon hundreds of fragmented human bones showing ...