Necklace

150–200 CE Overall: 40.3 cm (15 7/8 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.263.1.a

Near Teotihuacán’s largest palace is a temple ornamented with green-feathered serpents, symbols of the earth’s fertility. Beneath the temple were at least 120 human sacrifices, most men, many warriors, and some wearing greenstone ornaments like these, perhaps a set. The sacrif...

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