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2 unusual facts about Templo Mayor


Cortez the Killer

Another possible interpretation is that "she" represents the Aztec main temple, the Templo Mayor.

Templo Mayor

Leopoldo Batres did some excavation work at the end of the 19th century under the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral because at this time, the temple was thought to be there.


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).

New Fire ceremony

The first fires to be lit in this way were those at the twin temple Templo Mayor where the Tlatoani would participate, and later the fires at the Calmecac of Huitzilopochtli and subsequently the lesser temples and Calmecacs and Telpochcallis and lastly private households.


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