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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gino Spocchia

Hundreds of skulls found in Mexican cave were sacrificial victims killed between AD900 and 1200

AP

Hundreds of skulls discovered in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state a decade ago are actually sacrificial victims killed a thousand years ago, authorities have said.

The skulls, which were found in a cave not far from the Mexican border with Guatemala, were believed to be from a violent crime when they were unearthed in 2012, but are in fact from a pre-Aztec culture, authorities said on Wednesday.

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