[Marius3188]

BBQ ping!

[nickcarraway]

I've never seen a good recipe for conquistidor.

[ClearCase_guy]

Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archaeological site

Go Yale!

[Mount Athos]

What's interesting about this is so many mainstream historians dismissed the account by the conquistadors as wild exaggeration, utter fabrication, based on bigotry against natives etc... Well it turns out the spanish simply told the plain truth in their accounts on this one...

[RexBeach]

Ah yes, the noble savage.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Mmm...new official US immigration policy - announce that captured illegals will get the "aztec treatment".

[Constitution Day]

But they were noble savages, so much more advanced than the depraved Europeans!

[Alouette]

<tree-hugging liberal>Oh, but the indigenous native pipples were so peaceful and completely at one with the environment! It must have been the eeeville white European occupying oppressors who provoked them.</tree-hugging liberal>

[FreedomProtector]

"Some pregnant women in the group had their unborn babies stabbed inside their bellies as part of the ritual."

America worships the same pagan gods today.

[brothers4thID]

Well of course they cooked them first- boiling kills off the smallpox, don't you know.

[SunkenCiv]

And for dessert, lady fingers! Thanks Marius3188.

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[rod1]

Tapas?

[M1Tanker]

"They hid all the evidence," said Martinez. "Thanks to that act, we have been allowed to discover a chapter we were unaware of in the conquest of Mexico."

Hate to tell the scholar, but I've seen the evidence written about years ago; back before PC took hold. We studied this in a middle school social studies class. Of course, the teacher there (last of a dying breed) also stated that he was saddened by the rewriting of history and that future students would not get a full education due to concerns we may actually be offended by others and not just ourselves. I need to add that he used an old social science book and not our current, timid, "feel good", hate America books. These were the same titles, by the same company, but 30 years apart in publication.

The truth can only be hidden so long.

[winner3000]

(On hearing of the months-long massacre, Cortes ...sent an army to wipe out its people.)

Too bad we didn't do that to the people who slowly cut our people's heads off.

[Dumpster Baby]

[Snickering Hound]

Finally, absolute proof that Moslem explorers discovered and converted Mexico before the Spaniards!

[School of Rational Thought]

"It shows it wasn't all submission. There was a fight."

Mexicans once AGAINST immigration?

[BenLurkin]

Love the headline -- makes it sound as though the Aztecs never invaded anywhere.

Poor put upon Aztecs.

[ElkGroveDan]

The priests and town elders, who performed the rituals on the steps of temples cut off by a perimeter wall, sometimes ate their victims' raw and bloody hearts or cooked flesh from their arms and legs once it dropped off the boiling bones.

...who are we to say that one culture is superior or more civilized than any other.

[RichInOC]

Boiled bones show Aztecs butchered, ate invaders

Well, of course they boiled the bones. How else are you going to make stock?