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Chichén Itzá MEX - Tzompantli Wall of Skulls

A tzompantli or skull rack is a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations, which was used for the public display of human skulls, typically those of war captives or other sacrificial victims.

 

Other examples are indicated from Maya civilization sites such as Uxmal and other Puuc region sites of the Yucatán, dating from around the late 9th century decline of the Maya Classical Era.

 

A particularly fine and intact inscription example survives at the extensive Chichen Itza site.

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