A tower of human skulls dating back to the 15th century has been found near the Metropolitan Cathedral in the center of Mexico City. 119 skulls of men, ...

Archaeologists discovered human skulls stacked in a tower buried in Mexico City.; Aztecs used such towers, called tzompantli, to display skulls of people who were ritually sacrificed. Part of this ...

A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the ...

Archaeologists have discovered 119 more human skulls in new sections of an Aztec tower dating back to the 1400s in Mexico. The tower has been split into three construction phases which are thought ...

Mexico’s Huei Tzompantli, a terrifying tower constructed from human skulls, is even bigger than previously thought. Archaeologists have discovered a new section of the historic site, which was ...

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.

The skulls are believed to date to between 1486 and 1502. Archaeologists have discovered 119 more human skulls in the Aztec 'tower of skulls.' (Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and ...

The sinister discovery of a tower of human skulls in Mexico City has cast doubt on traditional readings of Aztec history. More than 675 skulls of men, ...

Archeologist have carefully removed a human skull from an ancient Aztec site behind Mexico City, it’s just one of hundreds in what’s been described as tower of human skulls.

One-Third Of Aztec Human Skull Tower Contained Heads Of Sacrificed Women The sacrifices may have re-enacted the deadly battle between the Aztec war god and his sister. Benjamin Taub.

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A tower of human skulls unearthed in Mexico 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 ...