The Daily Populous

Sunday July 2nd, 2017 evening edition

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A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.

The tower is believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a massive array of skulls that struck fear into the Spanish conquistadores when they captured the city under Hernan Cortes, and mentioned the structure in contemporary accounts.

Historians relate how the severed heads of captured warriors adorned tzompantli, or skull racks, found in a number of Mesoamerican cultures before the Spanish conquest.

But the archaeological dig in the bowels of old Mexico City that began in 2015 suggests that picture was not complete.

Roughly six meters in diameter, the tower stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice.

Barrera said 676 skulls had so far been found, and that the number would rise as excavations went on.

The Aztecs and other Mesoamerican peoples performed ritualistic human sacrifices as offerings to the sun. »

North Korea sitting on $7 trillion worth of minerals

Authored by 9news.com.au

Despite the vast swathes of riches buried beneath the nation's bedrock, taking advantage of them has become difficult.

Once the minerals are out of the ground North Korea still has to offload them to potential buyers which are another hurdle.

The UN began imposing sanctions on North Korea after its first nuclear test in 2006 which has been tightened over the years. »

Cannabis as a Substitute for Opioid-Based Pain Medication: Patient Self-Report

Authored by online.liebertpub.com

Medical cannabis patients report that cannabis is just as effective, if not more, than opioid-based medications for pain.

The act of substituting cannabis for opioids has also been documented in several studies of medical cannabis patients.

Patients were provided an opportunity to comment on how cannabis compared with their use of opioid and nonopioid-based pain medication for the treatment of pain. »

The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet

Authored by arstechnica.com

Lindsey is part of a group called Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), which is working on ways to rescue that data and make it available to the public.

They organized data rescue events around the country, where volunteers identified vulnerable climate information on websites for several government agencies, including the EPA, DOE, and even NASA.

The act would disallow any scientific papers whose data cannot be "reproduced," which basically includes all studies of toxic cleanup and contamination. »

Samsung isn't honoring its Galaxy S8 $200 trade-in discount for many, leaving customers frustrated

Authored by androidpolice.com

Naturally, people began digging around for ultra-cheap phones that were eligible so that they could get $200 off the rather expensive Galaxy S8 phones at nearly no cost.

For instance, the Slickdeals thread suggested the $9.99 Alcatel OneTouch Pixi Eclipse from Walmart, which is of course now sold out.

We've reached out to Samsung regarding this issue, and will update this article when we receive a response. »