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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/23/2006 : 13:38:08
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Well, this Reuters article from CNN.com didn't go down well before breakfast. It seems there is now physical evidence that Aztecs fought back, and did so in their own inimitable way:
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Aztecs butchered, ate Spanish invaders
Wednesday, August 23, 2006; Posted: 1:28 p.m. EDT (17:28 GMT)
CALPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) -- Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520.
Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archeological site near Mexico City show about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in ritual offerings, and were dismembered or had their bones boiled or scraped clean, experts say.
The findings support accounts of Aztecs capturing and killing a caravan of Spanish conquistadors and local men, women and children traveling with them in revenge for the murder of Cacamatzin, king of the Aztec empire's No. 2 city of Texcoco.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/23/2006 13:52:22
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