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>A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about human sacrifice in the Aztec Empire (1325–1521) after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in forbidding structure.
>Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical edifice near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City. The 6m diameter tower forms part of Huey Tzompantli, a massive array of skulls that struck fear into Spanish conquistadors when they captured the city while they were lead by Hernan Cortes.
>Roughly 6m in diameter, the tower stood on the corner of temple of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec God of the Sun, War and Human Sacrifice. Its base has yet to be unearthed. There was no doubt that the tower was one of the skull edifices mentioned by Andres de Tapia, a Spanish conquistador who accompanied Cortes in the 1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico.