Stone human ‘effigies’ unearthed at Aztec temple in Mexico City were likely looted in battle and offered to the gods

Archaeologists in Mexico Metropolis have unearthed a set of stone collectible figurines depicting people — carvings that the Aztecs seemingly used as choices.

The 15 objects had been found tucked inside a stone chest buried on the previous web site of the Templo Mayor, which as soon as served because the temple complicated of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Spanish forces destroyed the temple in 1521, and the location is now house to the Mexico Metropolis Metropolitan Cathedral, in keeping with a translated assertion.