The Aztecs - chocolate, gold and gory giggles.

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> To honor the spring god Xipe, Aztec priests flayed human beings and clad themselves in the tattered hides. This symbolized the new vegetation in which the earth clothes itself. > To honor the fire ...

Why did the Aztecs sacrifice humans to the gods? Learn more about what this ritual served, along with other purposes. The traditional accounts of Aztec sacrifice are almost too gory to be true. In ...

For more than two decades, leading Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma directed the excavations of the main Aztec temple, located in the ancient capital of Tenochtitlan, in what is now ...