 is clearly some truth to these stories. There are several of these typical Aztec skullracks, rectangular frameworks lined with rows of human skulls, plastered over and built into the architecture, in the archaeological area of the Templo Major.
|Altar Platform on top of the Double Pyramid
This view is looking to the east at the top of the temple platform on the west side of the great double pyramids of Huizilopochtli and Tlaloc. According to the historical accounts, this is the place where the ritual human sacrifices would have been performed. The priests used ceremonial daggers of obsidian, to cut the beating hearts out of victims chests, putting them in the bowl of the Chac Mool statue at the center of the platform, while the blood of the victims ran down the sloping sides, stairways and terraces of the bright red pyramids.
|Monumental Basalt Statue of Coatlicue
The monumental basalt stone statue of Coatlicue, the goddess of death and the earth, was
discovered during excavations in central Mexico City in 1978. The statue was of solid stone,
and weighed 8 tons. It led to the unearthing and further excavation of the central ceremonial
district of Aztec Tenochtitlan, and the double pyramid that was it's main shrine.
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