Sports For Sacrifice
Are you a bad sport? Hate losing? Well then, be thankful that you’re living in this century. The ancient Mesoamerican populations played a game called “pok ta pok”. And guess what the losers had to do – well, nothing really. The winners would behead them and then sacrifice them. Sometimes the heads of the losers would even be used for another round instead of a ball. These games combined modern-day soccer and basketball, the rules only differed a little… apparently. More than 1,300 (actual) balls have been found.
Sport For Sacrifice
Die Hard
1988 was an interesting year. Well, for one, Bruce Willis dominated the big screen with the first “Die Hard”. But a discovery in Ashkelon, Israel made the world shudder with disbelief. Archaeologists were conducting excavations in an ancient Roman sewer when they discovered a mass grave. The grave contained almost 100 babies’ corpses and after further inspection, the investigators concluded that the babies were actually healthy at their times of death. The most common belief is that the babies were most likely the product of unwanted births of a brothel in the area.
Die Hard