The Templo Mayor (English: Main Temple) was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural...

teixiptla were also worshipped, the most significant being the one at the Templo Mayor which was made of dough mixed with sacrificial blood. Warriors who died...

archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City; from indigenous writings; from eyewitness accounts by...

directed by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, to unearth the Huēyi Teōcalli (Templo Mayor in Spanish). The prominent position of the Coyolxāuhqui stone suggests...

The Estadio Akron, formerly known as the Estadio Omnilife and Estadio Chivas (Estadio Chivas, Spanish pronunciation: [esˈtaðjo ˈtʃiβas]), is a multipurpose...

ceremonial center. There were about 45 public buildings, including: the Templo Mayor, which was dedicated to the Aztec patron deity Huitzilopochtli and the...

Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli. It was rediscovered in 1978 at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, now in Mexico City. This relief is one of the best known...

feast. Chantico was also worshipped in the twenty ninth building of Templo Mayor according to Sahagún. According to Fray Juan de Torquemada, Chantico...

the excavators to approximately AD 1000. During the 1930 excavation of Templo Mayor, the only fully polychrome chacmool to be found at that site was in its...

associated with Tláloc. This chacmool is similar to others found at the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlán. The chacmool found at Chichén Itzá appears to have been...

human skulls at the Hueyi Tzompantli in the archeological zone of the Templo Mayor. A wide variety of interpretations of the Aztec practice of human sacrifice...

geography for almost 700 years. The site is just one block southwest of the Templo Mayor, which, according to Aztec legend and mythology, was considered the center...

of the largest pyramid (Templo Mayor) in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. A third monument in the plaza in front of Templo Mayor was devoted to the wind...

Tzompantli, with more than 650 skulls, in the archeological zone of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. The name comes from the Classical Nahuatl language of...

chemical analysis of the incense burners found in the remains of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. The Nahuatl term cempoalxóchitl, was used to refer to...

massive monolith of Tlaltecuhtli was discovered in an excavation at the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan (modern-day Mexico City). The sculpture measures approximately...

double pyramid—joined pyramidal bases supporting two temples—and the Templo Mayor, the biggest building in the Aztec city Tenochtitlan. Aztec architecture...

Indonesia. Sacsayhuamán citadel in Peru. Gate of the Sun in Bolivia. Templo Mayor ruins and other historic buildings in Mexico City, built from andesite...

Tenochtitlan, the Mexica built grand temples for different purposes. The Templo Mayor (Main Temple) and nearby buildings are rich in the symbolism of Aztec...

Oklahoma Press, Norman. López Luján, Leonardo (2005) The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan. Revised ed. Translated by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano...

bristling with teeth or fangs and jaws with one eye. A knife found in the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, shows a profile of a face that presumably represents...

Mexican archaeologist. From 1978 to 1982 he directed excavations at the Templo Mayor, the remains of a major Aztec pyramid in central Mexico City. Matos Moctezuma...

formula for the production was published in the book De Bonampak al Templo Mayor: Historia del Azul Maya en Mesoamerica, many developments in the chemical...

woman drawing water, and then by the priest of Huītzilōpōchtli from atop Templo Mayor.: 85  As the alarm spread, numerous Aztec warriors, noblemen and commoners...

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...

Mexico-Tenochtitlan. After the conquest, it was transferred to the exterior of the Templo Mayor, to the west of the then Palacio Virreinal and the Acequia Real, where...

excavation of the Tizoc Stone, initiated a new phase of research on the Templo Mayor as contemporary scholars attempted to interpret their dense symbolism...

memory of Mexico-Tenochtitlan; Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Templo Mayor Bicentennial of Mexico's Independence; profiles of Miguel Hidalgo, Jose...

conquistadors intervened to prevent a ritual of human sacrifice in the Templo Mayor; the Aztec version says the Spaniards were enticed into action by the...

and conflict. His main temple in Tenochtitlan was located south of the Templo Mayor. According to Diego Durán, it was "lofty and magnificently built. Eighty...