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Archaeologists in Guatemala uncovered an ancient Mayan altar that was clearly used for child sacrifice, yet the Associated Press managed to find someone to claim the practice was “not … violent” but just “their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.”
Altar Haul
The AP story, published last week, recounts the discovery of an altar in Tikal National Park, about 325 miles north of Guatemala City. According to AP, “The enormous city-state of Tikal, whose towering temples still stand in the jungle, battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for dominance of the Maya world.”
That Mayan world extended north into Mexico, where the city of Teotihuacan — “one of the largest in the world at its peak between 100 B.C. and A.D. 750,” wrote AP — stood. Teotihuacan, near present-day Mexico City, is famous for its Pyramid of the Sun and Pyramid of the Moon, both of which were used for human sacrifice.
AP reported:
Edwin Román, who leads the South Tikal Archaeological Project within the park, said the discovery shows the sociopolitical and cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and Teotihuacan’s elite between 300 and 500 A.D.
Román said the discovery also reinforces the idea that Tikal was a cosmopolitan center at that time, a place where people visited from other cultures, affirming its importance as a center of cultural convergence…
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