Episode 40: The Ancient Ruins Under Mexico City

Photograph: Reuters

For hundreds of years an ancient Aztec temple laid buried beneath the busy streets of Mexico City, hidden and forgotten.

Sources for this episode include

The book Broken Spears: the Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

The Book The Conquest of Mexico by Hugh Thomas

The article Mexico City’s Secret Underground World from the BBC

The article Under Mexico City from the US Archaeology Journal

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