Tower
of human skulls in Mexico casts new light on Aztecs
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. Archaeologists have found more
than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the
cylindrical edifice near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the
main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became
Mexico City.
tower
of human skulls 73=21p Hoax
(253/11=23 Fraud, Faker) (233=51p
Dishonesty, Conspiracy)
(F
279/3=93 Propaganda, Invented) (S
883=153p/3=51 Conspiracy, Dishonesty)
(E,J 1900=19 Bogus)
A
tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City
250=25 Trick (637/13=49 Conjurer, Chicanery) (F 715/13=55
Santa, Complicity) (S 2562/42=61=18p Faked) (E 5047/49=103
B.S.) (J 3777/3=1259=205p/5=41 Falsehood, Not Real)
The
tower is believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a massive
array of skulls that struck fear into the Spanish conquistadores when
they captured the city under Hernan Cortes, and mentioned the
structure in contemporary accounts. Historians relate how the severed
heads of captured warriors adorned tzompantli, or skull racks, found
in a number of Mesoamerican cultures before the Spanish conquest.
But
the archaeological dig in the bowels of old Mexico City that began in
2015 suggests that picture was not complete. "We were expecting
just men, obviously young men, as warriors would be, and the thing
about the women and children is that you'd think they wouldn't be
going to war," said Rodrigo Bolanos, a biological anthropologist
investigating the find.
"Something
is happening that we have no record of, and this is really new, a
first in the Huey Tzompantli," he added. Raul Barrera, one of
the archaeologists working at the site alongside the huge
Metropolitan
Cathedral built over the Templo Mayor, said the skulls would have
been set in the tower after they had stood on public display on the
tzompantli. Roughly six meters in diameter, the tower stood on the
corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of the sun, war
and human sacrifice. Its base has yet to be unearthed.
There
was no doubt that the tower was one of the skull edifices mentioned
by Andres de Tapia, a
Spanish
soldier who accompanied Cortes in the 1521 conquest of Mexico,
Barrera said. In his account of the campaign, de Tapia said he
counted tens of thousands of skulls at what became known as the Huey
Tzompantli. Barrera said 676 skulls had so far been found, and that
the number would rise as excavations went on. The Aztecs and other
Mesoamerican peoples performed ritualistic human sacrifices as
offerings to the sun.
The
Aztecs and other Mesoamerican peoples performed ritualistic human
sacrifices as offerings to the sun 409=80p Conceived
(1012/44=23 Fantasy, Fraud) (1403=143
Falseness) (F 1090=109=29p Masonic, Mocker) (S 4092/44=93
Invented, Unactual) (E 5872/16=367=73p=21p
Hoax)
(J
4212/36=117 Improvise)
Three
Sixty Seven E 79=22p Joke, Laugh (83=23p
Fraud, Faker) (223=48p Hoax) (Su
1338/6=223 The Synagogue Of Satan) (F
327/3=109=19 Bogus) (S 783/9=87 Fixed, Misguide) (E 2482/34=73=21p
Hoax) (J 1942/2=971=164p Intentional)
A
picture is worth a hundred decodes as you can plainly see that the
skull and the number 367E decoded reveals that this archaeological
dig is a complete hoax.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-archaeology-skulls-idUSKBN19M3Q6?il=0
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