Adolescents were sacrificed to their close relatives during funerals of high-status individuals in the Mocha culture.

A genetic analysis of six people buried in a Moche tomb around A.D. 500 revealed that two teenagers were sacrificed to their ...

A 30-year-old man, Jayesh Thakor, allegedly killed his 22-year-old relative, Bhavin Thakor, by striking him with a sword ...

Very little is truly known of the ancient Celts who left no written records. The names of many of the gods worshipped by them are known through Latin or Gallo-Latin inscriptions made in late pre ...

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In a suspected case of 'human sacrifice', a man allegedly killed his grandmother and offered her blood on a 'shivling' before he tried to end his life in Chhattisgarh's Durg district, police said ...

Human sacrifice, for years assumed to live on only in fictional works like horror film The Wicker Man, is in fact alive and well in the 21st century. One case was even recorded right here in ...

Was Molech the name of a god or was it simply a sacrificial term like the molk of the Carthaginians? Were children actually offered up in gruesome and fiery sacrifices to Molech or was it rather a ...

GUWAHATI, India – Indian police have arrested five men accused of conducting a human sacrifice, nearly four years after the discovery of the victim’s headless body at a Hindu temple left ...

Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala have arrested three people for allegedly murdering two women in a suspected case of human sacrifice. The remains of the women, who were allegedly ...