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- | A flight attendant’s secrets to surviving long-haul flights | + | Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals an unexpected finding |
- | Any air travel can be stressful, but facing down a long-haul flight can be especially intimidating. | + | |
- | Should you prioritize sleeping or eating, or both? Should you attempt to exercise | + | he ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other underground caverns. |
- | Kris Major is a British flight attendant with 25 years’ experience. He’s worked short-haul hops and spent 14-hour stretches | + | A long-held misconception is that the victims were often young and female — an impression that has stuck in the contemporary imagination |
- | As many of us prepare | + | The new analysis, based on ancient DNA from the remains of 64 people who archaeologists believe had been ritually sacrificed and then deposited in an underground chamber, found the victims were all young boys, many of whom were closely related. |
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+ | “There were two big moments of surprise here,” said lead study author Rodrigo Barquera, a researcher in the department of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute | ||
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+ | “We were thinking, influenced by traditional archaeology that we would find, a non-sex-biased burial or mostly girls,” he said. | ||
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