Lost Aztec tomb lies under Mexico City

[AlphaCentauri]

Archeologists digging in the dirt and black ooze under Mexico City's most important public square have been tantalized for decades by the possibility of a great treasure and likely burial place of one of the last Aztec rulers.

"They keep finding astonishing things as they inch their way along," says David Carrasco, a Harvard University historian who's worked with Mexican archeologists at the Templo Mayor.

But the great find – a royal tomb – has eluded scientists. The city of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital that lies beneath the modern Mexico City, was founded on an island in the middle of a saltwater lake.

A high water table makes progress difficult. "When you dig a pit or a trench, you find very quickly the water level and cannot continue if you don't have a powerful pumping system," says Leonardo Lopez, the archeologist heading the excavation.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/651306

[Judi Lynn]

1. Wonderful! Cannot wait to hear more about this discovery.

AlphaCentauri, you might want to take a minute and cross-post this in the anthropology forum, too.

It would definitely find interested readers there.

[AlphaCentauri]

2. I didn't know there was such forum thanks n/t