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The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 1

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Last Amusement Park

Five priests would stretch your body over a sacrificial stone. They'd pull you in all four directions really tight, so you couldn't move. The fifth priest would say a prayer as he produced an obsidian knife made of volcanic glass. It's very gory and very nasty, but from what experts say about the process, it was actually pretty efficient.

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