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7 New Wonders Wear Crown

The largest online poll ever conducted wrapped up yesterday, and today the results became official. The seven wonders of the modern world, which were announced in Portugal, include an Asian engineering...

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Mayans Sacrificed Boys—Not Virgin Girls

The human sacrifices offered up to the Mayan gods in Pre-Columbian Mexico were likely boys and young men, not virgin girls, Reuters reports. A Mexican archaeologist has ventured into the sacred...

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Inside the Pyramid Is a Pyramid. Inside That Is Something More

On the surface, the Kukulkan temple that sits among the ruins of Chichen Itza looks nothing like a Russian nesting doll, but it's essentially the pyramid equivalent, scientists say. They'd known for...

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After Locals Told of the Cave, It Was Sealed—Until Now

This "extraordinary" story could have been published 50 years ago. That's when locals at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza told an archaeologist about a cave there, but he had its entrance sealed,...

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7 New Wonders Wear Crown

The largest online poll ever conducted wrapped up yesterday, and today the results became official. The seven wonders of the modern world, which were announced in Portugal, include an Asian engineering...

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Mayans Sacrificed Boys—Not Virgin Girls

The human sacrifices offered up to the Mayan gods in Pre-Columbian Mexico were likely boys and young men, not virgin girls, Reuters reports. A Mexican archaeologist has ventured into the sacred...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Inside the Pyramid Is a Pyramid. Inside That Is Something More

On the surface, the Kukulkan temple that sits among the ruins of Chichen Itza looks nothing like a Russian nesting doll, but it's essentially the pyramid equivalent, scientists say. They'd known for...

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Clik here to view.

After Locals Told of the Cave, It Was Sealed—Until Now

This "extraordinary" story could have been published 50 years ago. That's when locals at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza told an archaeologist about a cave there, but he had its entrance sealed,...

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