It had been dead for 500 years and lay in a stone-lined ... you'll find human sacrifice everywhere in the world at that time. The Maya and numerous other cultures predated the Aztec's embrace ...

According to the Aztec ritual calendar, a human sacrifice was necessary multiple ... synonymous with the Mesoamerican cultures. From the stone figures in the once teeming metropolis of Teotihuacan ...

when Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico he encountered an Aztec civilization dedicated to the practice of human sacrifice on a shocking scale. Tens of thousands of people were hauled to the top of ...