Life and death in the Templo Mayor
By: Eduardo Matos Moctezuma ; translated by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano, Thelma Ortiz de Montellano.
Series: Mesoamerican worlds
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Niwot
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico); Aztecs -- Religion.; Aztecs -- Antiquities.; Mexico City (Mexico) -- Antiquities.
Description: In 1978, workmen in downtown Mexico City accidentally discovered a beautifully preserved monolithic sculpture at the foot of the main temple of the Aztecs. This important find led to a massive excavation that continues today under the direction of archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.

The great temple, now known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolized the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and underworld met. In Life and Death in the Templo Mayor, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130) and index.
"Appéndix 2, Nahua poems" (p. 101-125) contains 25 poems from Poesía náhuatl, translated and edited by Angel María Garibay.