Tenochtitlan

The Mexica capital and what is left of it under Mexico City. The Templo Mayor, found by electricity workers in 1978 and excavated to 1982, the Tlaltecuhtli monolith raised in 2006 at nearly twelve tons, the causeways and chinampas, and the lake that is no longer there. The founding date of 13 March 1325 was designated in 1925 to produce a six hundredth anniversary.

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160 moments in this segment.

1. 1521 - The feather headdress in Vienna. A fan of quetzal and cotinga feathers worked with gold, made in Mexico around 1515. Held at the Weltmuseum in Vienna. Mexico has asked for its return more than once; Austria holds that the piece is too fragile to travel.
2. 1883 - The calendar stone in the museum court, 1883. An albumen print of the Sun Stone standing in the courtyard of the old national museum. Mexico City, 1883. The stone was unearthed in the Zócalo in 1790 and mounted on the cathedral wall for most of the nineteenth century.
3. 1883 - The idol called Teoyaomiqui, 1883. Two views of a colossal Mexica stone figure, front and side. Photographed in Mexico in 1883. Nineteenth-century writers called it Teoyaomiqui; it is now identified as Coatlicue.
4. 1883 - Ancient pottery and an Aztec statue, 1883. Vessels grouped around a standing stone figure, printed three views to a page. Mexico, 1883. Photographs like these were how European collectors first assessed Mexican antiquity.
5. 1900 - The Great Temple imagined, 1900. An illustration of the sacred precinct and the Templo Mayor as they stood in the sixteenth century. Drawn in 1900. Reconstructions of this kind were made from the chroniclers, decades before anyone dug the site.
6. 1974 - The Bonampak rooms, copied. A full-scale replica of the painted chambers of Bonampak inside the museum. Mexico City, March 1974. The originals in Chiapas are too fragile and too far for most visitors.
7. 1974 - The Quiriguá zoomorph, copied. A cast of a Maya boulder sculpture from Guatemala, shown in the Mexican national museum. Mexico City, March 1974. Casts let one museum hold the Maya world across its modern borders.
8. 2009-04-01 - Piedra del Sol o Calendario Azteca. INAH TV presents the Piedra del Sol, often called the Aztec calendar. It measures about four metres across, weighs over eighteen tonnes and was carved around 1470.
9. 2009-04-02 - Zona Arqueológica de Templo Mayor. Versión Introductoria. INAH TV introduces the Templo Mayor archaeological zone. The building went through seven construction phases, the first after 1325.
10. 2010-05-12 - Descubrimiento del monolito de Tlaltecuhtli. Mexicas. INAH TV reports the discovery of the Tlaltecuhtli monolith. The carved earth deity was found in 2006 near the Templo Mayor platform.
11. 2010-05-20 - Traslado de Tlaltecuhtli.. INAH TV films the transfer of the Tlaltecuhtli monolith. Moving a twelve tonne carving through the historic centre required closing streets.
12. 2010-06-20 - Moctezuma II. INAH TV presents Moctezuma II. He ruled at the height of Mexica power and died during the Spanish occupation of the city.
13. 2010-09-27 - Moctezuma II La caída. INAH TV covers the fall of Moctezuma II. Cortés arrived on 8 November 1519 and the city fell on 13 August 1521 after a siege of over ninety days.
14. 2012-03-20 - Tlaltecuhtli Señora de la Tierra. INAH TV presents Tlaltecuhtli as lady of the earth. The figure is carved in a squatting birth posture with clawed joints.
15. 2012 - The Great Temple and the cathedral. The excavated Mexica temple with the Metropolitan Cathedral behind it. Mexico City, 2012. The temple was pulled down after 1521 and its stone went into the cathedral and the buildings around the square.
16. 2012 - The double stairway. The twin stairs of the Great Temple, one side for Huitzilopochtli and one for Tlaloc. Mexico City, 2012. Two gods shared one pyramid, war and rain on the same platform.
17. 2012 - Stone serpents at the temple base. Carved serpent heads along the foot of the platform. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Coatepec, the serpent hill where Huitzilopochtli was born, is what the pyramid was built to be.
18. 2012 - Terraces of the Great Temple. The stepped platforms of the temple seen across the site. Mexico City, 2012. Each enlargement was tied to the reign of a particular ruler.
19. 2012 - Inside the excavation. The dug-out precinct with its walkways for visitors. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The site sits several metres below the modern street because the city has been sinking into the lakebed for centuries.
20. 2012 - Stonework of the Great Temple. Fitted masonry of one of the temple's building phases. Mexico City, 2012. The earliest phase still has its painted stucco in places.
21. 2012 - The chacmool at the Great Temple. A reclining stone figure holding a dish on its stomach. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The chacmool on the Tlaloc side keeps much of its original red, blue and white paint.
22. 2012 - Model of the sacred precinct. A scale model of the ceremonial centre with the Great Temple at its heart. Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The precinct held over seventy buildings inside a walled enclosure.
23. 2012 - A colonial object in the excavation. An artefact of apparently Spanish make recovered from the temple site. Mexico City, 2012. The layers above the temple are colonial, since the precinct was built over at once.
24. 2012 - Post-conquest material at the site. Another object from the colonial layers of the dig. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Archaeologists dug through four centuries of city to reach the temple.
25. 2012 - European material in the layers. An artefact from after 1521 found in the excavation. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Cortés ordered the temple levelled and a Spanish city laid out on the same grid.
26. 2012 - Colonial finds grouped. Several post-conquest objects shown together. Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The museum shows the conquest as a layer in the ground, not only as a story.
27. 2012 - More from the colonial layer. A further group of objects from after the fall of the city. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The site is a single continuous sequence from the Mexica city to the present street.
28. 2012 - The House of the Eagles. The precinct building beside the Great Temple, its benches and columns exposed. Mexico City, 2012. Two full-size clay eagle warriors were found standing at its entrance.
29. 2012 - Benches in the House of the Eagles. Painted stone benches running along the interior walls. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The bench reliefs show a procession of warriors moving towards a ball of grass stuck with bloodletting spines.
30. 2012 - Inside the eagle precinct. The interior spaces of the House of the Eagles. Mexico City, 2012. The building is where the two clay figures of Mictlantecuhtli were found.
31. 2012 - The eagle house from the walkway. The structure seen from the visitor route above it. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Its stucco floors were laid over each other repeatedly as the building was renewed.
32. 2012 - Model of the cathedral. A scale model of the Metropolitan Cathedral shown in the temple museum. Mexico City, 2012. The cathedral took nearly 250 years to build and is visibly out of level from subsidence.
33. 2012 - The conquistadors' account. A display on how the Spanish described the city they took. Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Cortés wrote his letters to Charles the Fifth as a defence of an expedition he had launched without authority.
34. 2012 - The excavated precinct. A general view over the exposed temple platforms. Mexico City, 2012. About 4.5 hectares of the ceremonial centre have been investigated.
35. 2012 - Stone and stair. Masonry and steps of the Great Temple in detail. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Volcanic tezontle, light and porous, is the stone the Mexica built with.
36. 2012 - The eagle house exterior. The outer walls of the House of the Eagles. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Eagle and jaguar warriors were the two elite military orders.
37. 2012 - The north patio. Open ground on the northern side of the precinct. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The excavation reached the water table in places, which is why some of the wood survived.
38. 2012 - The tzompantli altar. A platform faced with carved stone skulls. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The real skull rack, the Huei Tzompantli, was found nearby and held hundreds of mounted heads.
39. 2012 - Along the temple platform. The length of the Great Temple's exposed base. Mexico City, 2012. The final phase would have stood around 45 metres high.
40. 2012 - The temple from the south. The excavated structure seen from the southern end of the site. Mexico City, 2012. Huitzilopochtli's shrine stood on the southern half of the double platform.
41. 2012 - The North Red Temple. Building C, its walls carrying red paint and circular motifs. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The red temples borrow their style from Teotihuacan, a city already a thousand years dead.
42. 2012 - Red paint on Building C. Surviving colour on the North Red Temple. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Almost the whole precinct was painted, and only fragments of it survived burial.
43. 2012 - Detail of the red temple. Close view of the painted stucco on Building C. Mexico City, 2012. The circles on its walls repeat a Teotihuacan pattern deliberately quoted centuries later.
44. 2012 - Skulls on the altar face. Carved stone skulls set in rows across the altar. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The stone version stood in for the real rack of skulls it faced.
45. 2012 - The skull altar in detail. A close view of the carved skull course. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. Excavators reached the real Huei Tzompantli under a colonial building in 2015.
46. 2012 - Rows of stone skulls. The tzompantli altar seen along its length. Mexico City, 2012. Analysis of the skulls found there has identified women and children as well as warriors.
47. 2012 - The altar from the side. The skull platform seen at an angle. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2012. The tower of skulls it belonged to was built with mortar, in a ring.
48. 2012-08-01 - Tlaltecuhtli Diosa de la Tierra. INAH TV presents Tlaltecuhtli as earth goddess. The stone retains substantial original pigment.
49. 2013-03-13 - La imagen fundacional de Tenochtitlan en seis siglos de memoria colectiva. INAH TV covers the founding image of Tenochtitlan across six centuries of representation. The eagle and cactus have been redrawn by every regime since the conquest.
50. 2013 - The Temple of Santiago. The colonial church at Tlatelolco seen from the plaza. Mexico City, 2013. The Colegio de Santa Cruz here taught Nahua nobles Latin from 1536.
51. 2013 - Santiago Tlatelolco from the square. The colonial church standing over the ruins of the pre-Hispanic city. Mexico City, October 2013. The three cultures of the plaza's name meet within about a hundred metres.
52. 2013 - At the Templo Mayor site. Part of the excavated precinct open to the street. Mexico City, 2013. Seven building stages have been identified, each casing the one before.
53. 2013 - What the dig revealed. Exposed stone of the Great Temple and its platforms. Mexico City, 2013. The 1978 to 1982 excavation was directed by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.
54. 2013 - Panorama of the site. A wide view across the whole excavated area. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2013. The dig cleared a full city block of colonial and modern buildings.
55. 2013 - The temple from above. The site seen from the raised walkway. Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2013. A monolith of Tlaltecuhtli, the earth lord, was found here in 2006, about 4 by 3.6 metres and close to 12 tons.
56. 2013 - The sign they were given. A monument to the omen the Mexica were told to look for. Mexico City, 2013. An eagle on a nopal cactus is what they were to settle beside, and it is on the flag.
57. 2013-08-30 - Crónicas y relatos de México - Zócalo, Centro Histórico (29/08/2013). Canal Once covers the Zócalo and the historic centre. The main square occupies the Mexica ceremonial precinct almost exactly.
58. 2014 - Aztec wood carving in Berlin. A carved wooden object from the Mexica world, held in a German collection. Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, photographed 2014. Very little Mexica woodwork survives, since almost all of it burned or rotted.
59. 2014-07-11 - La Ciudad de México en el Tiempo: Zócalo (primera parte). Canal Once places the Zócalo in the city's history. The square has been the country's political stage since before the conquest.
60. 2014-09-08 - Coatlicue de Coxcatlán. Museo Nacional de Antropología. INAH TV presents the Coatlicue of Coxcatlán at the anthropology museum. Several Coatlicue figures survive at different scales.
61. 2015-03-04 - Traslado de Tláloc al Museo Nacional de Antropología. The anthropology museum films the transfer of the Tláloc monolith. The colossal figure was moved to the museum when it opened in 1964.
62. 2015-03-17 - MUNDO INAH 76, 17 marzo 2015. Arqueólogas, independentistas y diosas en el Museo del Templo Mayor. INAH TV covers women archaeologists in its news bulletin. Mexican archaeology has had prominent women researchers since the mid twentieth century.
63. 2015-06-05 - MUNDO INAH 97, viernes 5 junio 2015. Exposición "Los aztecas, el pueblo del sol" en Canadá. INAH TV covers an exhibition on the Aztecs in its news bulletin. Mexica material travels internationally on loan regularly.
64. 2015 - The Placeres facade, reassembled. A Maya temple front rebuilt inside the museum, its mask panels set either side of the door. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2015. The facade was taken illegally from Campeche and recovered before it left Mexico.
65. 2015 - Cempasúchil under cultivation. Rows of marigolds grown in the chinampa conservation zone. Xochimilco, Mexico City, 2015. Cempasúchil is the Nahuatl name for the flower whose smell is said to guide the dead.
66. 2015 - The museum frontage. The main elevation of the National Museum of Anthropology. Mexico City, 2015. Its plaza is dominated by the umbrella column, a concrete shaft carrying a bronze relief and a permanent curtain of water.
67. 2015 - The Santiago garden at Tlatelolco. Open ground beside the church at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Tlatelolco, Mexico City, 2015. The plaza's name counts pre-Hispanic, colonial and modern layers stacked on one site.
68. 2015 - The church of Tlatelolco. The side entrance of Santiago Tlatelolco with a carved figure above the door. Mexico City, 2015. The church was built from the stones of the pyramid it stands beside.
69. 2015 - Tlatelolco ruins. Excavated platforms of the twin city on the northern half of the island. Tlatelolco, Mexico City, 2015. Tlatelolco held the great market that Bernal Díaz described as bigger than anything in Spain.
70. 2015 - Platforms at Tlatelolco. Stone terracing at the archaeological zone. Mexico City, 2015. Tlatelolco was the last part of the city to fall, on 13 August 1521.
71. 2015 - The city on the lake, modelled. A scale model of Tenochtitlan shown with a painted reconstruction behind it. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2015. The founding date of 13 March 1325 was designated in 1925 to produce a six hundredth anniversary.
72. 2015 - Stone figures in the Mexica hall. Carved standing figures in the museum's Mexica gallery. Mexico City, 2015. The Mexica hall sits on the main axis of the building, at the far end of the patio.
73. 2015 - A gallery at the anthropology museum. Cases and stonework in one of the halls. Mexico City, 2015. Each ground-floor room opens onto its own garden, which was Ramírez Vázquez's answer to museum fatigue.
74. 2015 - Ball court rings. Carved stone rings from Mesoamerican courts, displayed together. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2015. Getting the ball through a ring ended the game outright, which is why it happened so seldom.
75. 2015 - Inside the national museum. A view through one of the archaeology galleries. Mexico City, 2015. The museum holds twelve archaeological halls on the ground floor and ethnography above them.
76. 2015 - The Sun Stone. The basalt monolith with its central face ringed by the day signs. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2015. It is not a working calendar but a carved statement of cosmic time, and it weighs about 24 tons.
77. 2015 - The smiling faces of Veracruz. Ceramic heads with open, grinning mouths from the Gulf coast. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2015. The caritas sonrientes come from the Remojadas tradition and are unusual in showing laughter at all.
78. 2015 - Documenting the collection. Volunteers photographing the museum during a Wiki Takes day. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2015. Free-licence photography is what puts these objects in reach of anyone who cannot travel.
79. 2015-08-21 - La Cuenca de México. INAH TV presents the Basin of Mexico. The lake system was drained over four centuries and the city now sinks into its bed.
80. 2015-09-17 - Visita el Museo Nacional de Antropología. An invitation to visit the Museo Nacional de Antropología. The building holds 23 exhibition halls around a courtyard with a concrete umbrella on a single pillar.
81. 2015-10-13 - Visita guiada zona arqueológica del Templo Mayor. INAH TV offers a guided visit to the Templo Mayor archaeological zone. On 21 February 1978 Comisión Federal de Electricidad workers struck a carved stone disk over 3.25 metres across.
82. 2016 - Chapultepec forest. The first section of the park that was the Mexica rulers' retreat. Mexico City, 2016. Chapultepec means grasshopper hill in Nahuatl, and it supplied the city's drinking water by aqueduct.
83. 2016-10-14 - 10 años del descubrimiento de la Tlaltecuhtli. INAH TV marks ten years since the Tlaltecuhtli was found. The monolith weighs around twelve tonnes and was lifted in sections.
84. 2017-04-10 - El México antiguo en las ciudades. Plaza de las Tres Culturas Tlatelolco. INAH TV covers the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in a series on ancient Mexico in the cities. The square holds Mexica ruins, a colonial church and modern housing together.
85. 2017-05-19 - Inauguran en el Museo del Templo Mayor exposición de escultura polícroma mexica. INAH TV reports a sculpture exhibition opening at the Museo del Templo Mayor. Mexica sculpture was originally painted in strong colours.
86. 2017-06-02 - Mexicas. El arte en la época imperial. INAH TV covers Mexica art in the imperial period. Sculpture production expanded sharply in the century before the conquest.
87. 2017-06-16 - Mexicas: El color en la escultura. INAH TV covers colour in Mexica sculpture. Traces of pigment survive on many pieces displayed today as bare stone.
88. 2017-07-26 - Crónicas y relatos de México - Nuevos hallazgos en el Templo Mayor (25/07/2017). Canal Once covers new finds at the Templo Mayor. The project has run continuously since 1978 and still produces discoveries.
89. 2017-10-12 - El Templo Mayor y su tamaño. INAH TV addresses the size of the Templo Mayor. Each rebuilding encased the previous structure, which is why the earlier phases survive.
90. 2017-11-13 - Museo del Templo Mayor estrena acceso y abre exposición conmemorativa. INAH TV reports the Museo del Templo Mayor opening a new entrance. The museum sits directly beside the excavated platform.
91. 2017-11-16 - Eduardo Matos: Proyecto Templo Mayor. Radio INAH interviews Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on the Proyecto Templo Mayor. He directed the excavation from 1978 to 1982 and was born on 11 December 1940.
92. 2018-03-24 - Los Aztecas: Capítulo IV "La Conquista de México" (Documental Completo). A documentary chapter on the conquest of Mexico. Cortés reported about 60,000 daily visitors to the market, with conservative sources giving 20,000 to 40,000.
93. 2018 - Offerings of the Red Queen. Ornaments of jade, shell and cinnabar from a royal burial at Palenque, shown together as they were found. Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2018. The exhibition was titled The Red Queen, The Journey to Xibalbá, after the Maya underworld.
94. 2018 - A skull from the tzompantli. A human skull pierced at the temples for mounting on a rack. Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2018. Bioanthropologists working the Huei Tzompantli have found men, women and children among the skulls.
95. 2018 - Mexica sculpture in the flora and fauna room. A carved stone animal from the Mexica collection. Sala 6, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2018. Mexica sculptors carved grasshoppers, snakes, frogs and dogs with as much care as they gave the gods.
96. 2018 - An editathon in the museum. Volunteers writing at laptops in the museum, an event run with Wikimedia México and the culture ministry. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2018. The museum has opened its collections to free-licence documentation drives repeatedly since the 2010s.
97. 2018 - Plaque of the Ávila brothers, 1567. A carved stone plaque recording the execution of Gil and Alonso Ávila after the Martín Cortés conspiracy. Templo Mayor archaeological zone, Mexico City, 2018. Their house was razed and salted, and the plaque was set up on the site.
98. 2018-08-14 - Concluyen la excavación de la Ofrenda 174, del Proyecto Templo Mayor. INAH TV reports the completion of Offering 174 at the Templo Mayor project. Offerings are excavated over months and recorded object by object.
99. 2018-09-04 - Coatlicue: la Diosa de la Tierra. A UNAM lecture on Coatlicue as earth goddess. She is the mother of Huitzilopochtli in the Mexica origin narrative.
100. 2018-09-28 - Especiales La ciudad de México en el tiempo - De camino al Zócalo (28/09/2018). Canal Once traces the causeways in its series on the city through time. Three causeways ran to the mainland at Tepeyac, Iztapalapa and Tlacopan, with removable bridges to let canoes pass.
101. 2019 - Mixcoac in the modern city. Excavated platforms in a walled enclosure surrounded by present-day streets. Mixcoac, Mexico City, 2019. The name is Nahuatl for where the cloud serpent is venerated, and INAH traces the earliest phase to between 400 and 600.
102. 2019 - The Sun Stone, copied. A cast of the Piedra del Sol mounted on a wall at a cultural centre. Photographed 2019. The monolith tracks cycles in which a month ran twenty days.
103. 2019-06-28 - Oro para Coyolxauhqui: la Ofrenda 167. INAH TV reports gold found for Coyolxauhqui in Offering 167. Gold objects are comparatively rare in Mexica offerings.
104. 2019-08-30 - Un lobo para Huitzilopochtli la Ofrenda 174. INAH TV reports a wolf found in Offering 174 dedicated to Huitzilopochtli. The animal was buried wearing gold ornaments.
105. 2019-11-19 - Tetzáhuitl. Los presagios de la Conquista de México - Inauguración. INAH TV covers Tetzáhuitl, the omens of the conquest. The omens were recorded after the fact and are a colonial literary construction.
106. 2020-02-11 - Exposición Memorias del Templo Mayor en el Museo Nacional de Antropología. INAH TV covers an exhibition of Templo Mayor memories at the national museum. Excavation material is shared between the site museum and the anthropology museum.
107. 2020-03-29 - Templo Mayor, centro de centros. PIEDRAS QUE HABLAN. INAH TV presents the Templo Mayor as the centre of centres in Piedras que Hablan. The temple was dedicated simultaneously to Huitzilopochtli for war and Tláloc for rain, with separate shrines and separate staircases.
108. 2020 - The Templo Mayor ruins. Stepped platforms open below street level in the middle of the colonial city. Centro Histórico, Mexico City, 2020. Electricity workers found the Coyolxauhqui monolith here in 1978 and the block above it was demolished to dig.
109. 2020 - The Tláloc monolith. A colossal rain god cut from volcanic stone, brought from Coatlinchán. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2020. Moving it into the city in 1964 needed a purpose-built trailer, and it rained hard the night it arrived.
110. 2020-08-11 - Conferencia magistral. Las andanzas de Coatlicue, la Diosa de la Tierra.. A keynote lecture on the wanderings of the Coatlicue. The statue was reburied after its 1790 discovery because it disturbed viewers.
111. 2020-10-10 - El penacho de Moctezuma. Plumaria del México antiguo. TV UNAM presents the Penacho de Moctezuma and ancient Mexican featherwork. There is no historical certainty that the headdress was Moctezuma's, nor verified authentication of its age.
112. 2020-10-13 - Últimos datos bioantropológicos de los cráneos del Huei Tzompantli. The Templo Mayor museum presents bioanthropological data from the skulls of the Huei Tzompantli. The skull rack was found beside the temple platform during recent excavation.
113. 2020-10-15 - Taller: Tlaltecuhtli, las aventuras de un monolito del Templo Mayor. The Templo Mayor museum runs a workshop on the adventures of the Tlaltecuhtli monolith. Museum education programmes explain the excavation to children.
114. 2020-10-21 - 33 Aniversario. Taller: Tlaltecuhtli, las aventuras de un monolito del Templo Mayor (parte 2). A second Templo Mayor workshop on the Tlaltecuhtli for the museum's anniversary. The monolith is now the centrepiece of the museum's entrance hall.
115. 2021-08-08 - Isabel Moctezuma, la última princesa mexica. TV UNAM presents Isabel Moctezuma, the last Mexica princess. Her descendants held Spanish titles and estates for generations.
116. 2021-10-23 - Tlaltecuhtli. The Templo Mayor museum presents the Tlaltecuhtli. Conservation of the painted surface took years after the lift.
117. 2021-10-28 - La muerte entre los mexicas : Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma lectures on death among the Mexica. He has published on the subject across five decades.
118. 2022-02-02 - D Todo - Chinampas de Xochimilco (02/02/2022). Canal Once's D Todo visits the chinampas of Xochimilco. The system is still worked commercially in the southern lake remnant.
119. 2022-02-21 - Conferencia "Vida y muerte en el Templo Mayor". The Templo Mayor museum hosts a conference on life and death at the site. Offerings buried in the platform are the excavation's richest source.
120. 2022-05-06 - Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Las ciudades de Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco. (Tercera sesión 3/3). Eduardo Matos Moctezuma lectures on the cities of Tenochtitlan for UNAM. The city was built on an island in Lake Texcoco covering roughly 8 to 13.5 square kilometres.
121. 2022-05-06 - Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Las ciudades de Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco. (Segunda sesión 2/3). A second lecture by Matos Moctezuma on Tenochtitlan. Population at contact is estimated between 200,000 and 400,000, a wide range that should be given as a range.
122. 2022 - The National Museum of Anthropology. The museum seen from outside its main entrance. Chapultepec, Mexico City, 2022. Pedro Ramírez Vázquez's building opened in 1964 and hangs its patio roof from a single column.
123. 2022 - The Xaltilloli collection. Pieces from the Xaltilloli Museum's holdings. Tlatelolco University Cultural Centre, UNAM, Mexico City, 2022. Xaltilloli is a Nahuatl term, and the collection came to UNAM with the Tlatelolco building.
124. 2022-07-22 - Hallazgo de ofrendas de objetos de madera en Templo Mayor. INAH TV reports wooden objects found in Templo Mayor offerings. Waterlogged conditions preserved wood that would normally have rotted.
125. 2022-11-16 - Oficios artesanales y artífices desde la arqueología y la historia. Sesión 8. The Templo Mayor museum presents research on craft trades seen through archaeology. Specialist artisans supplied the ceremonial precinct.
126. 2023-05-13 - “Traceología y tecnología del monolito de Coyolxauhqui”. The Templo Mayor museum presents research on the traceology of the Coyolxauhqui monolith. The stone was the first major find of the 1978 excavation and dates to the end of the fifteenth century.
127. 2023-05-20 - "Coyolxauhqui: 45 años después. Remembranza y arqueología de una batalla". The Templo Mayor museum marks 45 years since the Coyolxauhqui discovery. The disk shows the dismembered moon goddess at the foot of her brother's temple.
128. 2023-06-18 - "Las aves de Huitzilopochtli de la Ofrenda 179 del Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan". The Templo Mayor museum presents research on birds from Offering 179. Faunal remains show the reach of Mexica tribute networks.
129. 2023-11-24 - Excavación, registro y conservación de los objetos de madera de Templo Mayor INSIGNIAS DE LOS DIOSES. INAH TV covers the excavation, recording and conservation of wooden objects. Organic material requires immediate stabilisation on lifting.
130. 2024-05-18 - Identifícate en tu museo. Coatlicue. INAH TV presents the Coatlicue in a museum identification series. The colossal figure wears a skirt of woven serpents.
131. 2024 - The face of Mictlantecuhtli. A close view of the lord of the dead, teeth bared, liver hanging from the ribcage. Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 2024. The clay figure was found in the House of the Eagles beside the Great Temple.
132. 2024-10-14 - Lugar de hallazgos de Coatlicue, Piedra del Sol y Piedra de Tízoc son señalados mediante placas.. INAH TV covers where the Coatlicue, the Piedra del Sol and the Stone of Tízoc were found. All three were unearthed in the Zócalo in the late eighteenth century.
133. 2024-11-02 - "La muerte en el México prehispánico". The Templo Mayor museum hosts a conference on death in pre-Hispanic Mexico. Mexica funerary practice differed sharply by rank and by manner of death.
134. 2025-01-30 - Especiales La ciudad de México en el tiempo - De camino al Zócalo. A second Canal Once programme on the old roads into the city. Double aqueducts each over four kilometres long carried water from the Chapultepec springs.
135. 2025-02-18 - Arqueología Mexicana: Tzompantli: semillas de vida. INAH TV presents the tzompantli as seeds of life. The Mexica understood the skull rack as a fertility structure rather than only a trophy display.
136. 2025-02-26 - Arqueología Mexicana_Cuauhtémoc, águila que desciende… para atacar. TV UNAM presents Cuauhtémoc as the descending eagle. His name means exactly that in Nahuatl.
137. 2025-02-28 - ¿Quién fue Cuauhtémoc, el último tlatoani de México-Tenochtitlan?. A city broadcaster asks who Cuauhtémoc was. The monument to him on Reforma dates from the Porfirian era.
138. 2025-03-13 - 700 años de México-Tenochtitlan. Radio INAH marks 700 years of México-Tenochtitlan. The institute programmed extensively around the anniversary.
139. 2025-03-18 - Conmemoraciones - Cuauhtémoc, el último Tlatoani (18/03/2025). Canal Once commemorates Cuauhtémoc, the last tlatoani. He led the defence of the city through the final siege.
140. 2025-04-25 - Crónicas y relatos de México - Nuevos hallazgos en el Templo Mayor. A later Canal Once programme on new Templo Mayor finds. Each construction phase yields its own offerings.
141. 2025-05-28 - Arqueología Mexicana_Chinampas, cuando el humano le ganó terreno al agua. TV UNAM covers chinampas in its Mexican archaeology series. The raised beds allowed farming on the lake and extended the island itself.
142. 2025 - The Memorial del 68. Material from the M68 collection on the Tlatelolco massacre. Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, UNAM, Mexico City, 2025. The killings of 2 October 1968 happened on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, on top of the Tlatelolco ruins.
143. 2025 - Tlillancalco, the place of the black house. Archaeological pieces from a temporary exhibition of that name. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2025. Tlillancalco was a shrine in the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan associated with Cihuacóatl.
144. 2025 - Aztec ruins in the Pino Suárez metro. The transfer passage between metro lines 1 and 2, built around a circular pre-Hispanic platform found during construction. Pino Suárez, Mexico City, 2025. The shrine to Ehécatl, the wind god, was left in place inside the station.
145. 2025 - Instruments of the peoples of Mexico. A display of musical instruments in the Magnificence and Diversity room. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2025. The second-floor galleries deal with living cultures rather than archaeology.
146. 2025 - In the Templo Mayor collection. Objects from the museum built over the excavated temple. Mexico City, 2025. The museum opened in 1987, five years after the main dig closed.
147. 2025-06-26 - Especiales La Ciudad de México en el tiempo - Zócalo-Centenario. A Canal Once special on the Zócalo and the historic centre. Excavation continues under buildings around the square.
148. 2025-07-26 - 700 años de México Tenochtitlan. INAH TV marks 700 years of México-Tenochtitlan. The commemoration was held in July 2025 rather than on the designated March date.
149. 2025-07-26 - Siete siglos de fundación México-Tenochtitlan. Zócalo de la Ciudad de México. The federal government stages seven centuries of México-Tenochtitlan in the Zócalo. The ceremony took place directly above the buried ceremonial precinct.
150. 2025-08-14 - Conferencia Magistral Templo de Tenochtitlan por el doctor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.. A keynote lecture on the temple of Tenochtitlan. The ceremonial precinct lies beneath the modern Zócalo and cathedral.
151. 2025-09-01 - A 700 años de la fundación de Tenochtitlan: entre el mito y la historia. A community museum marks 700 years since the founding of Tenochtitlan, between myth and history. The exact date is unclear and 13 March 1325 was designated in 1925 to create a six hundredth anniversary.
152. 2025-09-13 - 700 Años de la fundación de Tenochtitlan, una propuesta desde la arqueoastronomía. TV UNAM presents a proposal marking 700 years of the founding. The manufactured anniversary is now itself a subject of study.
153. 2025-10-02 - El último tlatoani. A 500 años de la muerte de Cuauhtémoc | Charla | 1° de octubre, 2025. A UNAM programme marks five hundred years since the death of Cuauhtémoc. He was executed by Cortés during an expedition to Honduras.
154. 2025-10-27 - Ciudad infinita - El viaje mexica: 700 años de la Fundación de Tenochtitlán (27/10/2025). Canal Once presents the Mexica journey and 700 years since the founding. The eagle on a cactus devouring a serpent is legend and is the origin of the image on the flag.
155. 2025-11-24 - El último tlatoani. A 500 años de la muerte de Cuauhtémoc | Charla. A second UNAM lecture on the last tlatoani five centuries on. Cuauhtémoc became a national symbol in the nineteenth century.
156. 2025-12-04 - Especiales La ciudad de México en el tiempo - De camino al Zócalo. A third Canal Once programme in the same series. The modern street grid still follows several of the causeway lines.
157. 2025-12-30 - La vida volvió al Lago de Texcoco con la creación de un refugio natural I Informe Capital. A report on life returning to Lake Texcoco with a new park. The remaining lakebed has been the subject of competing development plans for decades.
158. 2026-02-25 - A 700 años de la fundación de Tenochtitlan | Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma speaks on 700 years of Tenochtitlan. He has been the central figure in Templo Mayor archaeology since 1978.
159. 2026-03-11 - A 700 años de la fundación de Tenochtitlan. A UNAM lecture marking 700 years since the founding of Tenochtitlan. Anniversary scholarship reassessed the 1925 dating itself.
160. 2026-07-07 - Museo del Templo Mayor | Serie Museos y zonas en tiros de esquina. INAH TV presents the Museo del Templo Mayor. The museum opened in 1987, five years after the main excavation closed.