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Mexico's Pyramid of Death
OCTOBER 2006
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Bird of Sacrifice
Photograph by Jesús Eduardo López Reyes

Sacred symbols of supernatural power, golden eagles shared the fate of a dozen men killed in a horrifying ritual likely witnessed by a crowd of thousands at the great urban center of Teotihuacan in about A.D. 300.

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