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  • Mexican tomb reveals gruesome human sacrifice

    12/03/2004 4:14:00 PM PST · by snarks_when_bored · 17 replies · 702+ views
    New Scientist ^ | December 4, 2004 | Will Knight
    Mexican tomb reveals gruesome human sacrifice 18:46 03 December 04 NewScientist.com news service   Evidence of a grisly human sacrifice and a complex military infrastructure has emerged from an excavation of the ruins of a pyramid in the 2000-year-old city of Teotihuacan in Mexico. A vault containing 12 bodies, ten of which had been decapitated, along with the remains of pumas, wolves and eagles were discovered at the city's central structure, the Pyramid of the Moon. "What we have found in this excavation suggests that a certain kind of mortuary ritual took place inside the tomb before it was filled in," says...