Archaeologists found 16 knives made from flint and obsidian of a type that were used in sacrifices by the ancient Maya.
Archaeologists have found more than a dozen stone knives in an ancient Maya city near a sacrificial altar.
Excavations at the site uncovered 16 knives—three made from flint and 13 from obsidian—that were intended as some form of offering, researchers with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History told Spanish news agency EFE. Stock image: A Maya stone altar in Copán, Honduras. More than a dozen stone knives have been found in the ancient Maya city of Kulubá near a sacrificial altar .The Maya civilization dominated what is now southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the western areas of El Salvador and Honduras for more than 3,000 years until the era of Spanish colonization.
The knives that have recently been uncovered at the site were found to the southwest of Kulubá's central square.
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