Skulls of over 150 women who were ritually decapitated over 1000 years ago have been found in Mexico. Experts believe ritual human sacrifices targeted poor individuals in earlier civilizations.
When Mexican authorities discovered a mound of roughly 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they took the bones for a crime scene and sent them to the state capital.
It turned out to be a cold case.
The National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday that it required a decade of testing and analysis to identify the skulls were from sacrifice victims slaughtered between A.D. 900 and 1200.
A skull discovered at the archaeological site Templo Mayor sits on display in Mexico City, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI / AP
"Believing they were looking at a crime scene, investigators collected the bones and started examining them in Tuxtla Gutierrez," the state capital's INAH reported in a statement.
The police were not being foolish in 2012; ...
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