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When archeologists went exploring in a lake on top of a snow capped volcano, they found wooden scepters shaped like lightning bolts. These scepters matched 500-year-old descriptions made by Spanish priests and conquistadors of offerings the Aztec maid to their rain god (Tlaloc). The archeologists also found cones of copal incense and obsidian knives at the bottom of the lake. The Aztec thought that leaving these objects in the lake would provoke a rain storm.
Although tests still need to be conducted to find out the objects actual age, writings from the 1521 Spanish Conquest of the Americas leave scientists to believe that these offerings were left in a frigid lake west of Tenochtitlan over 500 years ago. All the research done on this subject has been done by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
Article link: http://archaeologycurrentevents.com/aztec-offerings-mexico-1075738a
Although tests still need to be conducted to find out the objects actual age, writings from the 1521 Spanish Conquest of the Americas leave scientists to believe that these offerings were left in a frigid lake west of Tenochtitlan over 500 years ago. All the research done on this subject has been done by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
Article link: http://archaeologycurrentevents.com/aztec-offerings-mexico-1075738a