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Map of Tenochtitlan: The Aztec Island Capital
On November 8, 1519, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in the Aztec capital of Mexico-Tenochtitlán–– a Mexica city state on an...
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Did Palaeolithic Cannibals Make Symbolic Markings?
A compelling new study suggests that the cannibalism at Gough's Cave (Somerset, England) had a ritual element rather than just being for...