When we first met, he was the reigning welterweight knife-fighting champion of the ... He regarded me with those obsidian Mayan eyes. “If you throw away everything that made you great, you ...

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 (not pictured).

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A rock outcrop was found 5 meters from the altar, on which a mortar was excavated, also fragments of Late Postclassic ceramics from an obsidian knife and two human molars. Throughout the Playa del ...

Presented by Dr. James Stemp: Both the functional and ideological aspects of obsidian blades, as objects used to let blood and as symbols of bloodletting, were fundamental to ancient Maya religious ...

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