The ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones excavated from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other underground caverns.
A long-held misconception is that the victims were often young and female - an impression that has stuck in the contemporary imagination and has become difficult to dispel, even though more recent research has suggested that the victims included both men and women, as well as children. A ...
