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By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A sacrificial wolf elaborately adorned with some of the finest Aztec gold ever found and buried more than five centuries ago has come to light in… ...
The Aztecs has about 200 deities — and in this article, we're uncovering the 13 most important Aztec gods and goddesses you need to know about.
A WOLF which had its “heart ripped out” more than 500 years ago in a gruesome sacrifice before being draped in stunning Aztec gold has been uncovered in Mexico City. This trove was foun… ...
The traditional accounts of Aztec sacrifice are almost too gory to be true. In them, Aztec priests cut beating hearts from the chests of sacrificial victims before throwing them down the steep steps ...
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found a child sacrifice site at the foot of an ancient temple in a lost Aztec city. The startling discovery of the remains of a child was made at the foot of the Templo Mayor ...
Aztecs used hand, heart and arrow symbols to represent fractional distances when calculating ... Long known for their cool circular calendars and practice of human sacrifice, Aztecs were also math ...
The Aztecs created the small 1.2 to 2-inch-long (3 to 5 centimeters) skull-shaped whistles out of clay, possibly to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec lord of the underworld.
Aztec death whistle may have been used to prepare sacrifice victims for journey to the afterlife because of their ominous, scream-like sound ...
[1/13] Gold pieces formed into symbols are seen at a site where a sacrificed young wolf elaborately adorned with some of the finest Aztec gold has been discovered, adjacent to the Templo Mayor ...