Caitlin Doughty | The Mysterious Cave of Glowing Skulls @AskAMortician | Uploaded July 2018 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
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“Cave Filled With Glowing Skulls: A Pre-Columbian Palace of the Dead”
nytimes.com/1994/10/04/science/cave-filled-with-glowing-skulls-a-pre-columbian-palace-of-the-dead.html

“Beyond the Cave of the Glowing Skulls”
articles.latimes.com/1997-01-30/local/me-23775_1_cave-glowing-skulls

“The Myth of the ‘Cave of the Glowing Skulls’”
mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/myth-cave-glowing-skulls

“The Cueva de Rio Talgua, Honduras’ Cave of the Glowing Skulls”
by James E. Brady, George Hasemann, John H. Fogarty
http://www.cdihh.ihah.hn/ae/sources/PDF/1361-Informedeinvestigacion.PDF

Talgua Caves
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talgua_caves

“Human Skeletal Remains of the Ancient Maya in the Caves of Dos Pilas, Guatemala”
https://anthropology.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2016/07/Minjares-MA2003.pdf