Mexico finds 8 sacrificial victims at Gulf coast pyramid

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists in Mexico say they have found 13 buried sets of human remains, eight of which appear to be young men who were sacrificed to sanctify a temple. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday the skeletal remains may be as much as 2,000 years old. They were found at a Mayan ruin site known as Moral-Reforma in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The site apparently functioned as a stop on a river trade route connecting the Mayan kingdoms of the Yucatan and Central America with other cultures on the Gulf coast.