Mexico city ruin help?

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PETardo

aztec ruins.... just below the zocalo (main square) in Mexico City... actually, the center of mexico city was built on purpose over the remains of the center of TENOCHTITLAN (aztec's capital)

there are also some other ruins in mexico city or close by which didn't belong to the aztecs... such as cuicuilco or teotihuacan.

cindy11489

tenochtitlan was founded in 1325. those are the only pyramids in mexico city!

Patito

You can check out this page,
http://archaeology.asu.edu/tm/index2.php

Because there are a lot of findings in Mexico city and not all of them are from the Aztecs. Just outside of Mexico city is Teotihuacan (pyramids of the sun and the moon), who were there even before the Aztecs.

You'll find your answers in the site.

Gata de Barrio

It would be redundant to say they were "discovered" since the Spaniards came, destroyed TenochtitlÃ¡n and built what we know is Mexico City on top of it using the same gridlocks design of the Aztec city to later on drain the water and create Paseo de la Reforma avenue.

They never fully destroyed the Templo Mayor, it's just.. there if you walk around the corner of the ZÃ³calo.

The Spaniards visited TenochtitlÃ¡n in somewhere around 1521 (memory is a bit fuzzy). However, when the Aztecs knew they were going to be defeated, they either purposely destroyed their own buildings or buried deep into the ground their greatest treasures. Since the modern city is built on top of it, we don't know whether there's a great statue or something really valuable underneath a bank or a hospital. Sometimes construction workers end up making great archeological discoveries by accident! They discovered both a small ritual pyramid to the Aztec god Ã‰ecatl and a mammoth fossil when they were building the Mexico City subway. They are both in display in the subway.

Rumors said that the Aztecs hid the corpse of their last king CuahtÃ©moc in a secret location somewhere in the city, waiting to be discovered someday.

Lesser important pyramids can be found in many random parts of the Valley of Mexico though I haven't really visited them.

rhino72032

On February 21, 1978 workers employed by the Electric Light Company discovered the Coyolxauhqui Stone. They suspended all work in the area and contacted the Department of Salvage at INAH. The stone is three and one quarter meters in diameter and is the carved relief of a dismembered female. It is believed that this dismembered female is the Goddess Coyolxauhqui. The stone was formerly located at the base of the stairway at Templo Mayor. Its original purpose was to stop the bodies that were rolled off the sacrificial area atop Templo Mayor. This discovery spurred the excavation of Templo Mayor.
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artchitectonic

You can go tothe next inside of the city Cuicuilco (restored) in front Villa Olimpica (restored) located in front of Cuicuilco but a little bit more to the south around100 yards Tecpan in Ajusco mountains (the more high elevations in the City "pico del aguila" if you go there looking for the old town of Santo Tomas Ajusco htere is tecpan is not restored yet) in the back to Plaza Cuicuilco (one ex factory of paper is around 400 yards to the south entrance for Avenida San Fernando ) inside is an ecological home with solar cells etc. and is another but is not restored yet corner with Avenida Insurgentes Teothihuacan is outside of mexico city is near but is another state ...and old Tenochtitlan in the heart of the city.

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