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  1. Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid

     

    By Brian Winter

     

    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests Mexico's 2,000 year-old "Pyramid of the Moon" may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archeologists said on Thursday.

     

     

    The tomb at Teotihuacan, the first major city built in the Americas, whose origins are one of history's great mysteries, also held the bound carcasses of eagles, dogs and other animals.

     

    "It is hard to believe that the ritual consisted of clean, symbolic performances -- it is most likely that the ceremony created a horrible scene of bloodshed with sacrificed people and animals," said Saburo Sugiyama, one of the scientists leading the ongoing dig.

     

    "Whether the victims and animals were killed at the site or a nearby place, this foundation ritual must have been one of the most terrifying acts recorded archeologically in Mesoamerica."

     

    Of the 12 human bodies found, 10 were decapitated and then tossed, rather than arranged, on one side of the burial site. The two other bodies were richly ornamented with beads and a necklace made of imitation human jaws.

     

    The Aztecs came across Teotihuacan's towering stone pyramids in about 1500 A.D., centuries after the city was torched and abandoned. It is not known what language its inhabitants spoke, but the Aztecs named it "The Place Where Men Become Gods," believing it was a divine site.

     

    A major tourist site, it lies about 35 miles northeast of Mexico City.

     

    After 200 years of excavations, archeologists are still largely in the dark about the origins of the city, which is believed to have housed 200,000 people at its peak in 500 A.D. -- rivaling Shakespeare's London, but a millennium earlier.

     

    Sugiyama said the nearly complete excavation indicates the Pyramid of the Moon was significant to its builders as a site for celebrating state power through ceremony and sacrifice.

     

    The sacrifices were carried out during the expansion of one of the city's major monuments, suggesting the government wanted to symbolize growing sacred political power.

     

    "Contrary to some past interpretation, militarism was apparently central to the city's culture," the excavation team said in a statement.

     

    The master-planned city-state collapsed around 700 A.D., an event as mysterious as its formation.

     

    It was the site of a modern-day controversy earlier this year when protesters fought and lost a battle to keep the Mexican unit of retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. from building a new store a half-mile away.


  2. I agree 100%.Basically if this war was about terror, N.Korea shoulda been taken down firstif it was about WMD, north korea shoulda been taken down firstif it was about civillians being killed, then they shoulda invested their time and money into africans and asians that are dying each day due to lack of food and water...


  3. yeh.. alrite....... George bush really sucks..... He kills ppl and proclaims himself as a democratic ........  he is a blood sucker lol

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    you may be joking, but there is quite a lot of truth to what you say, mainly becuase of the fact that he has a personal vendeta. He is neither thinking of the american people, nor of the international community before he attacks all these countries.

     

    and honestly if he was just doing this to protect the innocents of the world, he would go take down N. Korea first.


  4. well the pacers are a real good and deep team, so they are recuperating real well after the loss of so many of their main players.and also its 100% the fans fault for all of this, IN NO CIRCUMSTANCES should fans ever be able to harm the players.also Ron should have kept his cool after he got ice on him because he is PAID millions to play, the least he can do is chill out..

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