http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/23/aztecs.cannibals.reut/index.html Aztecs butchered, ate Spanish invaders
CALPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) -- Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs
captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading
Spanish forces in 1520.
...about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in ritual offerings...
The prisoners were kept in cages for months while Aztec priests from what is now Mexico City
selected a few each day at dawn, held them down on a sacrificial slab, cut out their hearts
and offered them up to various Aztec gods.
"It was a continuous sacrifice over six months. While the prisoners were listening to their
companions being sacrificed, the next ones were being selected,"