Did the Toltecs sacrifice children?

The grisly find of the buried bones of 24 pre-Hispanic children may be the first evidence that the ancient Toltec civilization sacrificed children, researchers said Monday.

The bones, dating from AD 950 to 1150 and dug up at the Toltec capital of Tula, north of Mexico City, indicated the children had been decapitated in a group. The way the children, ages 5 to 15, were placed in the grave, and the fact that they were buried with a figurine of Tlaloc, the God of Rain, also pointed to a group sacrifice, according to researchers with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History.