http://www.reuters.com/article/us-m exico-archaeology-skulls

The Aztecs like the Mexicans of today were savages

>>3027879
Children were sacrificed to Tlaloc. Women to Goddesses they impersonated like Toci or Xochiquetzal for particular month ceremonies. They probably belong sacrifices of said ceremonies. It's not surprising in Guatemala their skull rack included some women. Though some guessed this case may have been actually female warriors since the Cakchiquels do mention women warriors in their annals.

And people said that Spaniards were in the wrong for bringing down the Aztec """""empire""""".

>>3028565
They were. They did more than just bring it down. They made things worst, just look at Mexico today.

>>3028572
I'm not seeing how it's worse to be honest, seems about the same. Unless by worse you mean that there are more Aztec blooded savages running around than ever before.....

>>3028640
Tenochtitlan wasn't a dump like Mexico City is today. It used to be one of the cleanest city's and it captivated the Spaniards so much they thought they were in a dream.

>>3028640
>destroying ancient writings and architecture is good
What are you a nigger?

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>>3027879
>""We were expecting just men, obviously young men, as warriors would be, and the thing about the women and children is that you'd think they wouldn't be going to war," said Rodrigo Bolanos, a biological anthropologist investigating the find.
someone interviewed this guy and everyone else is just copypasting the same quote

The 650 skulls were already discovered a year ago, what they recently found was 240 skulls of young men.
The fact that they mentioned that sacrificed women and children were found without stating how many women nor children and then stating that 650 sulls have been found right after is sensationalism at its best.

>According to the Spanish the Aztecs sacrificed 10 000 children every year., yet only 42 sacrificed children have been found in the most important temple of the empire. 42 children in 200 years. On the same spot the Spanish massacred 8 000 unarmed nobles and their children in a couple of hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_in_the_Great_Temple

>>3027879
>Leading archeologist, Lorena Vázquez, explains that from the total sample consisting of approximately 221 individuals, they have identified the sex of only 3% of them, two thirds correspond to male individuals, and the remaining third to Female individuals.
Likewise, in proportion, 97% percent are adults, two percent belong to infants and one percent remain unidentified. These reliable facts have come to "revolutionize" the idea that prevailed over the sacrifices exhibited in the tzompantli, that it was only about young men and adults.

4-5 children
such monsters, glad spaniards stopped the savages >>3028742

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I don't know, man. Sacrificing someone just for the sake of it, or for questionable reasons as religion, seems morally questionable.

However, doing in a regular schedule, and including children on it is crossing some line, for the worse. It doesn't matter if is 10 through the entire year, or 1'000, is just wrong.

>>3028565
Don't shitpost this thread please.