Two of the six Panther Valley residents accused of participating in a sex and drug cult were arraigned yesterday on additional charges for allegedly planning to use a 12-year-old boy as a “virgin ...

Ritual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent girls. In ...

In ancient times, the inhabitants of the Greek island of Crete practiced human sacrifice to appease gods whom they believed threatened them with earthquakes. In a December 20 lecture at the ...