Tlatelolco

Tlatelolco is an archaeological excavation site in Mexico City, Mexico, where remains of the pre-Columbian city-state of the same name have been found [1]. It is centered on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas [1]. At the main temple of Tlatelolco, archeologists recently discovered a pyramid within the visible temple; the pyramid is more than 700 years old [1]. In the archaeological area there are temples dedicated to Mexican deities such as Quetzalcoatl, Ehecatl and Huītzilōpōchtli [1]. Archaeological excavations and research have been able to explain why there were many childhood remains inside a particular temple in Tlatelolco [1]. Due to a famine and a serious outbreak of disease, which has not been clarified so far, “in the years 1454-1457 hundreds of children were sacrificed to the God Tlaloque in Tlatelolco” [1]. On 10 February 2009, INAH archaeologists announced the discovery of a mass grave containing forty-nine human skeletons, laid out in neat lines on their backs [1]. The grave was determined to be from the period of the Spanish conquest [1].