Archaeologists have long known that Mesoamericans displayed the severed heads of captured warriors on skull racks, or tzompantli in the Aztec language of Nahuatl. But the new discovery included ...

It is believed to be part of a skull rack ... of young male warriors, but also unearthed the crania of women and children, raising questions about human sacrifice in the Aztec Empire.

But a new archaeological analysis suggests that these morbid masks may have been made from slain warriors ... Aztec Empire. Finally, the researchers examined the method of manufacture of the ...

In the 1990s, archeologists in Mexico City unearthed a 500-year-old skeleton near an ancient Aztec ... or 5,000 warriors blowing these instruments,” said Jaime Arredondo, an art historian ...

The skull tower, which is said to date to between ... This brings the total number of skulls found so far at the site – located near the Aztec Templo Mayor – to 603. It is thought that the ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archeologists have discovered a massive ceremonial skull rack from the heyday of the Aztec empire in the ... white craniums of sacrificed warriors from rival kingdoms ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Mauricio Ramirez combined images of a young boy and an Aztec eagle warrior in his ... Part of a series on public art. More murals added every week.

Source: AFP Eduardo Matos, an archeologist at the National Institute of Anthropology and History, suggested the skull ... warriors . The partially unearthed skulls at the Templo Mayor Aztec ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a massive ceremonial skull rack from the heyday of the Aztec empire in the heart of Mexico ... was used to display the bleached white craniums of ...