Life and Death in the Templo Mayor
Moctezuma, Eduardo Matos / Montellano, Bernard R.Ortiz De / Montellano, Thelma Ortiz De
In 1978, workmen in downtown Mexico City accidentally discovered a beautifully preserved monolithic sculpture at the foot of the main temple of the Aztecs. This important find led to a massive excavation that continues today under the direction of archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. The great temple, now known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolized the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and underwor...