Archaeologists Uncover Hundreds of Bones in Unusual Aztec Burial in Mexico
The remains of a young woman were found surrounded by 1,789 human bones in Mexico City’s Templo Mayor—a find that is the first of its kind in the Aztec culture according to researchers at the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
“Although the bodies of sacrificial victims have been found in burials of elite persons in Mesoamerica going back to at least the Preclassic period, funerary deposits for Aztec elites have only rarely been encountered,” University of Florida archaeologist Susan Gillespie, who was not involved in the project, told the Associated Press.
I’m not altogether sure if the photograph accompanying the article is showing a lot of these bones sticking up out of the ground like that or not. The text says they were in piles of separate bone types.
