Researchers find Aztec temple platform in Mexico

MEXICO CITY: Archaeologists found a round Aztec ceremonial platform studded with stone carvings of serpent heads at Mexico City’s Templo Mayor ruin, raising hopes in the search for an emperor’s tomb, authorities said Thursday.


No Aztec ruler’s tomb has ever been located and researchers have been on a five-year quest to find a royal tomb in the area of the Templo Mayor, a complex of two huge pyramids and numerous smaller structures that contained the ceremonial and spiritual heart of the pre-Hispanic Aztec empire.”This would be quite an important find for Aztec archaeology,” said Michael Smith, an archaeologist at Arizona State University who is not connected to the dig.


”It would be tremendously important because it would be direct information about kingship, burial and the empire that is difficult to come by otherwise.”


He says the find shows that ”archaeologists are inching closer and closer to finding an Aztec royal tomb.”