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Mask of Mictlantecuhtli: 500-year-old mask of Aztec god of the underworld, who tore apart the dead

This skull-shaped mask was made to be used in a ritual involving the Aztec god of death.

In Iron Age Scotland, People Removed the Brains of the Dead and Sharpened Their Bones

Buried beneath a stack of stones in northwest Scotland, a woman’s skeleton was found with scratches on the inside of her ...