The Aztecs built Tenochtitlan on a lakebed, a place so unstable that parts of modern Mexico City are still sinking by up to 1 ...
The bones likely belong to people sacrificed during the reign of Ahuízotl, eighth king of the Aztecs. Courtesy of INAH Archaeologists excavating a famed Aztec “tower of skulls” in Mexico City have ...
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