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3 unusual facts about Leonardo López Luján


Leonardo López Luján

The year 1980 was especially significant in his career, for he began working at INAH’s Templo Mayor Project in the first season of excavations in Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct under the direction of Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.

López Luján received his bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Mexico’s National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), which he attended from 1983 to 1987 as a student of Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, who directed his thesis on the Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan (1990).

As part of his research at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan, he co-directed with William L. Fash and Linda Manzanilla the Xalla Palace excavation project and also worked with Saburo Sugiyama and Rubén Cabrera on the Pyramid of the Moon Project.



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