Guillermo de Anda of the University of Yucatan thinks that young boys and men were more likely the sacrificial victims of the Maya than young girls. He has studied the bones from 127 individuals recovered from the bottom of cenotes, but says that Maya mythology itself suggests that males were offered to the rain god, […]

 Last week there was an article from Iraq on the recent salvage excavations in the southern part of the country. Today’s Los Angeles Times has an article on looting in southern Iraq. “It may well be that more stuff has come out of the sites than was ever in the Iraqi museum,” said Elizabeth Stone […]