Tower of human skulls found in Mexico City dig casts light on Aztec sacrifices
by Reuters in Mexico City from on (#2VEQH)
- Archaeologists find more than 650 skulls near site of Templo Mayor
- Presence of skulls of women and children is 'a first', says scientist
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.
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