Archeologists have uncovered more than 500-year-old remains of about 50 Aztec children,


Anthropologist Elena Calderon, holds up the skull of an Aztec child, recovered during the construction of a new metro line in Mexico City, by the National Institute of Antropology and History August 17, 2010. Archeologists have uncovered more than 500-year-old remains of about 50 Aztec children, some of them stuffed into ceramic jars for burial, and the foundations of Aztec homes, hundreds of small figurines, and pots and plates dating from 1100 to 1500 AD, on the eve of the Spanish conquest, during excavations for a new subway line in Mexico City. Picture taken August 17,

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