Police found 150 skulls at a "crime scene" in Mexico. It turns out the victims, mostly women, were ritually decapitated over 1,000 years ago.

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[BenLurkin]

When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital.

It turns out it was a very cold case.

It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between A.D. 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday.

Frontera Comalapa in southern Chiapas state has long been plagued by violence and immigrant trafficking. And pre-Hispanic skull piles in Mexico usually show a hole bashed through each side of every skull, and were usually found in ceremonial plazas, not caves.

But experts said Wednesday the victims in the cave had probably been ritually decapitated and the skulls put on display on a kind of trophy rack known as a "tzompantli." Spanish conquistadores wrote about seeing such racks in the 1520s, and some Spaniards' heads even wound up on them.

While usually strung on wooden poles using holes bashed through them - the common practice among the Aztecs and other cultures - experts say the cave skulls may have rested atop poles, rather than being strung on them.

[BenLurkin]

Charming custom, yes?

[BenLurkin]

Ping

[NFHale]

But hey… All cultures are equal, remember…?

[Rural_Michigan]

at least they were adults and not infants like the modern day american likes to dismember

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

But hey… All cultures are equal, remember…?

Some cultures are more equal than others...

[Red Badger]

THEN IT’S OKAY, RIGHT?..................

[MercyFlush]

If I were a Mexican I’d be so proud of my ancestors and the glorious days of human sacrifices, beheading virgins, ripping out living hearts for the sun god...man, good times.

[Rebelbase]

500 years of Christianity still hasn’t ended the Death Cult.

[DesertRhino]

Cortez wiping out the Aztecs was like allied armies liberating WAII death camps. Thank god for those conquistador heroes.

[Vendome]

I swear some women are just plain hot in those Day of Dead costumes...

[Skooz]

But, they were earth peoples at one with nature and Gaia and spent their days peaceably frolicking in the meadows among their happy herds of unicorns.

[artichokegrower]

Too bad the colonizers shut down this cultural practice

[dsrtsage]

They probably weren’t listening

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Any arrests?

[Salamander]

LOL

[HereInTheHeartland]

Aztecs (if still around) would fit right in at Planned Infanticide (Parenthood)

[BenLurkin]

[Seruzawa]

Not just Mexican. Aztec, Maya, Inca... all were engaged in human sacrifice. Ain’t paganism grand?

[MercyFlush]

Yup. And now paganism is back and Moloch is being fed by Planned Parenthood, Moderna, and Pfizer.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Thank god for those conquistador heroes.

Wow. First part true...the Aztecs and other indigenous civilizations in that area were horrible. The Mayans were the worst. They reveled in torture and were experts at it.

However, the Spaniards were NOT heroes. They raped almost EVERY woman who came of age for 300 years and almost completely mixed the race into the "mestizo" category. The Spaniards were not good people and left a legacy of catholic corruption there which has left Mexico still tremendously corrupt with massive drug trafficking as a major pillar of the economy.