August
11
/ 2016
The ancient Greeks told myths about human sacrifice, but did they really kill people as some sort of sinister sacrifice to the gods? The 3,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage boy discovered in a mound of ashes of animals sacrificed to the gods indicates some of them may have. Archaeologists excavating this summer discovered the boy’s remains on an ash altar next to a stone platform on Mount Lykaion in Arcadia of the southern Peloponnese. For about 1,000 years before he was killed, Greeks sacrificed animals there. Though no other human remains have been found in the ash mound, just 7 percent of it has been excavated so far, reports the Associated Press. The ash mound is 100 feet (30 meters)
