Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
Archaeologists uncover the remains of a giant rack of skulls beneath downtown Mexico City
Hasnain says:
“Some conquistadors wrote about the tzompantli and its towers, estimating that the rack alone contained 130,000 skulls. But historians and archaeologists knew the conquistadors were prone to exaggerating the horrors of human sacrifice to demonize the Mexica culture. As the centuries passed, scholars began to wonder whether the tzompantli had ever existed.
Archaeologists at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) here can now say with certainty that it did.”
Posted on 2018-06-24T03:09:51+0000