The civilization that predicted the end of the world...the discovery of an archaeological house in Mexico that dates back more than 800 years!
Spread over an area of more than 4,300 square feet, the dwelling is believed to date back to the late Postclassic period (1200-1521 AD) and was supposed to have been located on the The civilization that predicted the end of the world...the discovery of an archaeological house in Mexico that dates back more than 800 years!
- Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a more than 800-year-old apartment house, built during the Aztec Empire, in Mexico's Centro neighborhood, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement last week. The structure was discovered as part of a larger electrical substation modernization project.
border of two neighborhoods in Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
Besides the house, archaeologists have discovered canals and a pier where boats could load and unload cargo, a feature of Aztec Chinamba farming. The Chinamba method was based on growing crops in small, rectangular areas of fertile land on shallow lake beds.
Underground, two pairs of unearthed funerary vessels - one a red texcoco and the other a brown monochrome channel - have been discovered containing the remains of infants, as well as two burials with offerings of incense burners, flowers, and spinning tools.
They also discovered a 23-inch-high stone statue of a man wearing an apron that appears to be in a throwing motion, from the same period. Due to a lack of polishing, they believe the statue is incomplete and may have been hidden around 1521 AD during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Remnants of colonial settlement in the 16th and 17th centuries include 20-inch-thick walls constructed of stone and mud to create 4 rooms and a courtyard. Investigations have shown evidence of a factory for saddlery and porcelain since that time.
In the nineteenth century, according to prominent archaeologist Alicia Bracamontes Cruz, the site is believed to have been used as a public bath for the elite, as dated in the writings of the nineteenth-century Mexican physician and historian José María Marroqué. There, the team uncovered remnants of bathroom floor tiles, large pipes, a drainage system, reinforced concrete sheets, high-temperature refractory materials, and European building materials.
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