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The Aztecs tower of skulls: Trophy rack of 650 severed heads found beneath Mexico City [tr]
Reuters and AP ^ | July 2, 2017 | Staff

Posted on 07/02/2017 4:48:38 AM PDT by C19fan

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. 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.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: aztecs; mexico; sacrifice
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Some revisionists claim the Conquistadores exaggerated the more gruesome aspects of Aztec society to justify their actions. Looks like the first person accounts were true.
1 posted on 07/02/2017 4:48:38 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Predator trophy case.


2 posted on 07/02/2017 4:52:43 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: C19fan
Looks like the first person accounts were true.

Who'd 'a thunkit?

3 posted on 07/02/2017 4:53:09 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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Hey if it quieted the earthquake gods and took the wind from the hurricane gods.......why not.


4 posted on 07/02/2017 4:53:14 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: C19fan

Who ate the Anasazi?

It wasn’t Christopher Columbus.


5 posted on 07/02/2017 4:55:07 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: C19fan
Then there was Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge


6 posted on 07/02/2017 4:59:16 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: C19fan

Truth shatters the invention that the “Native Americans” were peaceful, benign, gentle souls before the Europeans corrupted them. They were not.


7 posted on 07/02/2017 5:03:28 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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Wait, i hought Colombus and the explorers were the evil ones? You mean to say that the evil ones were the native savages? Wow! This changes everything that my kids have been taught in the greatest school system in the world. Go figure.


8 posted on 07/02/2017 5:04:05 AM PDT by Nicojones
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But, hey, it was that cracka YT Columbus that brought death and destruction to the noble red man Hiawatha who was one with nature just doing what comes naturally in his garden of Eden until the arrival of Christianity led to the mass slaughter of the people of color. Ya gots to get it right, bro.


9 posted on 07/02/2017 5:05:19 AM PDT by DrPretorius
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Modern version: Note the tux and it's a white guy so it's okay....


10 posted on 07/02/2017 5:06:34 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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There was a reason Cortez conquered a powerful empire many times the strength of the 600 or so soldiers he had . . . namely no shortage of locals who didn’t like the Azetecs and viewed those palefaces in funny clothes as a tool to even the score.


11 posted on 07/02/2017 5:10:14 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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12 posted on 07/02/2017 5:14:15 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Savage Beast

Ah yes. The ‘’happy children of the forest’’ bs.


13 posted on 07/02/2017 5:34:32 AM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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MEXICO needs deliverance.


14 posted on 07/02/2017 5:36:39 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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This a surprise to whom?


15 posted on 07/02/2017 5:41:52 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: C19fan

16 posted on 07/02/2017 5:42:39 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: DrPretorius

Many aboriginal cultures were brutal and bloodthirsty, many were not. FWIW, Columbus and those that followed brought European diseases that resulted in the death of up to 95% of the native populations.


17 posted on 07/02/2017 5:52:52 AM PDT by jimmyray (there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse)
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Yes. Slavery, torture, and endless warfare were the norm. And, of course, the Leftist delusions have nothing to do with truth and reality.


18 posted on 07/02/2017 5:58:09 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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Slavery, torture, and endless warfare were the norm. And, of course, the Leftist delusions have nothing to do with truth and reality.

Actually, the "deluded" leftists *do* want to bring back those days. They hate civilized society. It may be that the rank-and-file leftists really believe in the unicorn and skittles view of primitive societies that their leaders constantly talk about, but the leaders know the truth. They support brutal societies because they desperately want to be the ones in power, to do with other people anything they desire.

19 posted on 07/02/2017 6:03:07 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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The main thing to realize is, the folks they call native weren’t native at all. They had come from elsewhere too.

In North America, there is a lot of evidence that says white boy was here first.

Where do I get my free handouts?


20 posted on 07/02/2017 6:05:38 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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