Coyolxauhqui Stone from Templo Mayor | Aztec Art History

The Coyolxauhqui Stone comes from Templo Mayor in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. This stone was discovered in 1978 and led to the finding of Tenochtitlan underneath today's Mexico City. (Incredible!)

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0:00 - Discovery of the Coyolxauhqui Stone, Templo Mayor, and Tenochtitlan
1:05 - Who are the Aztecs?
1:26 - Tenochtitlan map and origin story
2:24 - Aztec human sacrifices
2:44 - Templo Mayor
3:25 - TlaloC and Huitzilopochtl gods
4:56 - The Coyolxauhqui Stone (story, description, and anlysis)
9:10 - Aztec and Mesoamerican art connection

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Music - “Aztec performer drums and yells, Mexico City” (https://freesound.org/people/taurindb..., CC BY 3.0)

File:Coyolxāuhqui.jpg, Drini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co..., CC BY-SA 3.0)

File:20041229-Coatlicue (Museo Nacional de Antropología) MQ-3.jpg, Luidger (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., CC BY-SA 3.0)

File:Aztec Empire 1519 map-fr.svg, (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., CC BY-SA 3.0)

File:Templo Mayor 2015 001.jpg, by Mike Peel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Te..., CC BY-SA 4.0)

File:Coyolxauhqui 4095977415 b89d64f008-2.jpg, by miguelão (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., CC BY-SA 2.0)

File:Rekonstruktion Tempelbezirk von Tenochtitlan 2 Templo Mayor 3.jpg, by Wolfgang Sauber (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., CC BY-SA 3.0)

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