![]() ![]() It was a hugely multicultural bloodbath, too, with sacrifices coming from as far as 200 miles away. With over 9,000 bones in the cave, the remains represent hundreds of individuals, many of whom were just children when they died. Who was sacrificed at the Midnight Terror Cave? While he spent the night recuperating in a Belize hospital, his accidental discovery of one of the largest ever collections of Mayan sacrificial remains was going to change the face of Mesoamerican archaeology forever. ![]() He survived – although when he saw where he had landed, he might have wished he hadn’t. One night in 2006, a looter in the Belize countryside fell 18 meters (60 feet) down sheer rock face to what he surely thought was his death. ![]() Well, that explains the “terror” part – what makes it a “midnight” cave? That would be the other half of the nightmare: the discovery of the site. “It’s probably the largest collection that has ever been found in a Mayan cave.” “We found… a huge collection of human skeleton material, around 9,000 bones,” James Brady, a professor of Mesoamerican anthropology at California State University at Los Angeles, told The Washington Post in 2015. Advertisement What is the Midnight Terror Cave? ![]()
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