Unearthing the Aztec past, the destruction of the Templo Mayor

Unearthing the Aztec past, the destruction of the Templo Mayor (Mexico City)
ARCHES: At Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series
Speakers: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker

[vanizakMo]

Very impressed with your pronounciation of the nahuatl language wich is sometimes even hard for us mexicans . great video

[ROMANEMPIRE]

I really wish I could see it with my own eyes.

[NukaEatsPepeni]

Genuinely and very well done, thank you!

[delusionsofgrandeur]

I recommend your channel on anyone who will listen - you do such a wonderful job of explaining things as unbiasedly as possible

[caiwj]

thanks guys. never failed to enjoy your videos. please dont stop:)

[andgio]

Very well explained, congratulations.

[luckap]

I love how dr Lauren pronounces the names.

[sjenner]

Excellent video. I would add one gloss: the collapse of the Aztec Empire cannot be purely attributed to the Spanish, but should be seen, at least in part, as a revolt by peoples conquered by the Aztecs. The destruction of the sacred precinct of the Aztec capital has another purpose, than just the desire to dominate. The cult of brutal human sacrifice, especially on the scale on which the Aztecs practiced it, was a horror to the Spanish, and part of what motivated the peoples under the heel of Aztec rule and who supplied by-in-large the sacrificial victims, to join the Spanish when they landed.

[ThomasSmith-oszc]

I go there every time I go to Mexico and I'm always expressed.

[Sasha]

I don't blame the Spanish for being astounded - I haven't seen a place quite like this one either!
The chacmool reminds me of myself over the weekend, lol. That bowl would be filled with various flavors of popcorn. 😌
I can't imagine the carnage and chaos as this temple was razed to the ground. What an effort to destroy it...
I've watched latin series about criollos and modern Mexico, but haven't heard much about art in either case, so it's nice to get more context for my novelas.

[tohernandez]

Very nice video, and excellent information, saludos desde cdmx

[andsay]

they didnt realise, real 'gold' was the culture and cities back than, so bad

[ulungprabowo]

I am curious on how we can know the shape of the top part of templa mayor if the left over is only lower parts of the temple.

[bobwilson]

it is a very big missconception saying reconquest of spain, there was no such spain before the muslims, the actual capital of spain was founded by muslims...and there was never any sort of project or idea of concept for unifying the peninsula, other than the romans wanting to make rome bigger, and that is also why there has been several civil wars at spain, it was never been a unified population with common original identity, there was no reconquest of anything, it was an expansion of chirstianism.
very huge missconception.