Thursday, December 02, 2004

Yahoo! News - Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid

Yahoo! News - Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid:
The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests Mexico's 2,000 year-old 'Pyramid of the Moon' may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archeologists said on Thursday.

The tomb at Teotihuacan, the first major city built in the Americas, whose origins are one of history's great mysteries, also held the bound carcasses of eagles, dogs and other animals.
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Of the 12 human bodies found, 10 were decapitated and then tossed, rather than arranged, on one side of the burial site. The two other bodies were richly ornamented with beads and a necklace made of imitation human jaws.
You have to love some of those details. A necklace made of imitation human jaws?