This song is about the premonitions that Emperor Moctezuma and other teopixqui (priests) were having that foresaw the Spanish coming. It’s about La Noche Triste (the night of sorrows), where the ...
Proud Mexican death metal band Tzompantli just shared a new single from their forthcoming album, The Drums Of Ancestral Force, out May 17 via 20 Buck Spin. The track, “Tlayohualli,” can be streamed ...
Tzompantli comes from a fairly well-documented line of metal bands showing reverence to pre-Hispanic history and culture, whether it's Roots by Sepultura in Brazil or the Black Twilight Circle bands ...
Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Huei Tzompantli tower, but archaeologist are unearthing its ruins. Archaeologists have unearthed a new section of the Huey Tzompantli, a “tower of skulls” in what ...
A new portion of the Aztecs' Huei Tzompantli skull tower discovered under Mexico City in March, 2020. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) Archaeologists discovered human skulls ...
Hundreds of skulls discovered buried beneath the streets of Mexico City are revealing chilling details about Aztec human sacrifices. In the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors wrote of an enormous ...
The unique feature of Huei Tzompantli is that the skulls are not attached, but rather form the building's structural system. Credit: Melitón Tapia / INAH Exactly ten years ago, the Urban Archaeology ...
As part of a restoration project, archaeologists in Mexico City recently excavated a portion of Huei Tzompantli—an ancient Aztec tower, which sits below street level. During the process, they ...
The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico announced on Thursday, Aug. 20, the discovery of an ancient skull rack located in Mexico City's historic center. The pre-Hispanic ...
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