Evidence of capture and rituals is unearthed at a site near Mexico City.
Knife cuts and even teeth marks on the bones show which ones had meat stripped off to be eaten
Skeletons found at an archeological site show that Aztecs captured, sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520. The condition of skulls and bones from the Tecuaque site east of Mexico City offers evidence that about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in ritual offerings, and were dismembered or had their bones boiled or scraped clean, experts say. The prisoners were kept in cages for months while Aztec priests selected a few each day, cut out their hearts and offered them up to various Aztec gods, Martinez said. “It was a continuous sacrifice over six months. While the prisoners were listening to their companions being sacrificed, the next ones were being selected,” Martinez said, standing in his lab amid boxes of bones, some of young children. The priests and town elders sometimes ate their victims’ hearts or cooked flesh from their arms and legs, Martinez said. Knife cuts and even teeth marks on the bones show which ones had meat stripped off to be eaten, he said.
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robert // December 25, 2006 at 11:06 am
None of the Indians anywhere in the world were savages its a lie . Its the infantil derangement mixed with scientific dogma that try to change history and claim even the Grand discoveries of the ancients as theirs. Like the 100s of thousands of books the Mayas left behind for the honest people of the world. they could perdict the movement of the planets very accurately. Take a look at Mr. Richard Feynmans lectures on Photons . the world knows that all history is recorded in the vacuum of space for ever. Life is not like a brick solid, life is how dense we are. So those who are destroying historical artifacts will be known to all soon. the ablilty for mankind to see the past is uppon us.