A tzompantli (Nahuatl pronunciation: [t͡somˈpant͡ɬi]) or skull rack was a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations...

As of 2020, archaeologists have found 603 human skulls at the Hueyi Tzompantli in the archeological zone of the Templo Mayor. According to chroniclers...

[citation needed] The Kichwa-Lamista people in Peru used to be headhunters. A tzompantli is a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican...

in a plaza, with a cross altar decorated with skulls, or mesoamerican tzompantli. At the north side of the plaza is another structure. This cross altar...

Tzompantli, or Skull Platform (Plataforma de los Cráneos), shows the clear cultural influence of the central Mexican Plateau. Unlike the tzompantli of...

Several Mesoamerican cultures used a skull-rack (known by its Nahuatl term, tzompantli), on which skulls were impaled in rows or columns of wooden stakes. Even...

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in the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleon than to the Mexica tzompantli. The recent trans-Atlantic connection can also be observed in the pervasive...

Art with ideological and political meaning: depiction of an Aztec tzompantli (skull-rack) from the Ramirez Codex...

the space that connects with the north causeway towards Tepeyac. Altar Tzompantli (Temple). It is characterized by a glyph at the top of the southern alfarda...