SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES
Aztec Templo Mayor

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© South American Pictures/ Tony Morrison

Templo Mayor, Mexico City. A tzompantli or altar of skulls covered with symbolic heads of sacrificial victims. Skull racks often displayed real heads.

 

 

 

 

 


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