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A tzompantli, or skull rack, associated with the temple dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, in the Ramirez Codex, Juan de Tovar's 1587 manuscript. This is a view of one of the found walls of the sacrifice place in ancient Tenochtitlan "the capital of the aztecs" now Mexico City and actually located in Templo Mayor museum in the place where the Major Temple was.

The name comes from the Classical Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, however it is also commonly applied to similar structures depicted in other civilizations. Its precise etymology is uncertain, although its general interpretation is "skull rack" or "wall of skulls".