The museum is located in the historical center of the city and to a side of the archaeological area that Coyolxauhqui opened up due to the discovery of the goddess's carved monolith in February of 1978. It was then when the rescue of the ruins was determined of what had been the Templo Mayor than the mexicas. The archaeological area you travels for a walkway that allows us to observe the different constructive stages of the basement. Along the road we observe great quantity of representations of heads of snakes, the flagstones of the different levels in the floors, drainages, laborers, frogs, the cornets, the replica of the monolith of the Coyolxauhqui and in the stage II, it leaves of the walls of the twin temples The Templo Mayor era a double pyramid dedicated to the gods Tláloc (god of the water and the rain, base of the agricultural cycle) and Sungod (god of the war, patron of conquests and tributes). Other remarkable temples were those dedicated to Quetzalcóatl (hero-god payee of the civilization) and Tezcatlipoca (god that makes and it changes the things and the destinations) or the temple of Ehécatl (god of the wind). they were Also the priestly enclosures and the schools for noblemen as the Calmécac (priestly) and the Telpochcalli (warriors). The Templo Mayor do not only represented the visible mark of a vast group but the cosmic center of an universe that required of human sacrifices to maintain it.
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Wall of the Skulls |
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