Bones on Racks
Pictures: Mass Sacrifice Found Near Aztec Temple
Sixteen feet (five meters) below street level in Mexico City, archaeologists have found a jumble of 1,789 bones from children, teenagers, and adults along with the complete skeleton of a young woman.
Published August 31, 2012
A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.
Published July 1, 2017
Tower of human skulls in Mexico casts new light on Aztecs
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