The Aztecs have been well-known to have conducted human sacrifice. I'm not sure what's new except for more remains.
Teotihuacan was not built by the Aztecs.
Teotihuacan (which we know very little about) predates the Aztecs by quite a few centuries. It was not altogether clear that human sacrifice in central Mexico occurred when Teotihuacan controlled that area. This is a brand new discovery.
Aztecs were not around 2000 years ago.
Teotehuacán dates back about 1500 years before the Aztecs. These pyramids are remains of the "Tolteca" culture, about which almost nothing is known, but who the Aztecs (who were a wandering tribe that only arrived in Central Mexico in the 13th century, AD) claimed as their ancestors... and as the first great civilization. The "Toltecs" (we have no idea what these people called themselves, so use the Aztec name for them -- "the builders") were thought to have been a highly peacable people (Aztec legends associate them with Quetzecoatl, a man turned God who rejected human sacrifice, preached the need for love and understanding -- and was born of a virgin mother! Sound familiar? It did to the first Spanish missionaries here too!). Archeologists always ASSUMED that Teotehuacáno sacrifices were small birds and butteflies. So, signs of human sacrifice are startling news.
Either that, or SOMEBODY really objected to the #$%& Wal-Mart store going up just outside the protected site.
Exactly. The story goes that when Cortez arrived there, he scraped layers of dried blood from the side of the pyramid with his sword. Very bloody.
LOL! Water is wet, film at 11.
You'd be surprised how many leftist anthro profs will deny that up and down though...
A big thank you to Spain for Christinizing the Aztecs.