Product Description: This biography of Mexico's award-winning archaeologist, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, is based on a series of interviews conducted by Davíd Carrasco and Leonardo L?pez Luj?n, respected Mesoamericanists in their own right. Born in 1940 Mexico City, Matos Moctezuma's father was a diplomat from the Dominican Republic and his mother was a Mexican national...read more

Provides a history of the city of Tenochtitlan, describes its eventual burial and rediscovery in more modern times, and details processes used in the excavation of the Great Temple.

'This important book presents detailed descriptions, analyses, and interpretations of offerings recovered during the last 50 years from excavations of the Aztec Great Temple in Mexico City. Argues that the offerings formed part of a cosmovision and are more varied in content, and presumably meaning, than previously thought'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/