150 skulls in Mexican ‘crime scene’ cave found to be ritual sacrifices from 900 AD

[Kamaji]

150 skulls in Mexican ‘crime scene’ cave found to be ritual sacrifices from 900 AD

By Snejana Farberov
April 28, 2022

When Mexican cops stumbled upon a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border a decade ago, they thought they were looking at a crime scene.

In a way, they were correct, but it has turned out to be a very cold case dating back a millennium.

It took 10 years of tests and analysis to determine the toothless craniums of men and women were from sacrificial victims killed between AD 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday.

“Believing they were looking at a crime scene, investigators collected the bones and started examining them in Tuxtla Gutierrez,” the state capital, the institute, known as INAH, said in a statement.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/04/28/skulls-in-mexican-crime-scene-cave-found-to-be-from-900-ad/

[The_Reader_David]

Of course, at that end of Mexico, it would have been the Mayans doing the human sacrifice.

Their version involved willing victims -- it was the winning team in the sacred ball game who was sacrificed -- unlike the Aztecs whose child victims who had to be crying when they were killed, as their tears were though to be necessary to ensure that rain came, and the excardiation of thousands of captives from war.  (There is a reason all the non-Aztecs in central Mexico sided with Cortez.)