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Mexican Experts Find 119 More Skulls on Aztec ‘Trophy Rack’ of Sacrificed Humans

A five-year dig under old buildings near Mexico City's Templo Mayor Aztec ruins has so far found a total of 603 skulls. They are believed to date to between 1486 and 1502. Such racks, known as tzompantli, were where the Aztecs displayed the severed heads of sacrificed victims on wooden poles pushed through the sides of the skull.

Paintings and written descriptions from the early colonial period showed descriptions of such racks.