Human Sacrifice: A Practice as Old as Time

A discovery of skulls in Mexico City was just the latest in our obsession with Mesoamerican human sacrifice. But Native Americans were far from the only practitioners.

Why did early human societies practice violent human sacrifice?

Sacrifice and Conversion between Europe and the New World, I Tatti

The Fearsome Wicker Man: An Eerie Way Druids Committed Human Sacrifice

There were different methods of Aztec heart sacrifice, and reasons behind them

Human Sacrifice The Ancient Egypt Site

Centuries of Death: 5 Ancient Cultures That Practiced Human Sacrifice

Samhain is the pagan origin of Halloween - and its terrifying rituals include human sacrifices and pumpkins filled with burning human fat

Skeletal remains 'confirm ancient Greeks engaged in human sacrifice', Archaeology

Centuries of Death: Ancient Societies That Practiced Uncovering Human Sacrifice Secrets, How common are human sacrifices for God's mutilation and murder?, by Mani Writes

Human Sacrifices May Lie Behind the Rise of Ancient Social Status, Science