January
22
/ 2021
Archaeologists at the excavation site of Tecoaque near Calpulalpan in Mexico have discovered 24,000 bones relating to the 500-year-old “sacrifice and revenge slaughter” events that brought Zultépec-Tecoaque to a bloody end. Today Calpulalpan, or Heroic City of Calpulalpan, is the capital of the Homonymous Municipality located to the west of the state of Tlaxcala. The Acolhua people were a Mesoamerican culture who arrived in the Valley of Mexico around the year 1200 AD and they were an important political ally of the ancient Mesoamerica Triple Alliance that was founded in 1428 AD by the Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan. This indigenous power structure came to an end 500 years ago this year, with the Spanish conquest of 1521 AD, and a
