Ancient Lie Detector: Trial by Rice was a judicial system where an alleged thief was forced to chew grains of rice – which if not wet following interrogation would lead to a guilty verdict. This was based on the assumption that the guilty feeling would cause a dry mouth.
The architectural nightmare of Tenochtitlan: An Aztec ‘Huey Tzompantli’ tower made of 650 human skulls, including those of women and children, discovered beneath modern-day Mexico City.