Mexican archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar have detected
underground chambers they believe contain the remains of
Emperor Ahuizotl, who ruled the Aztecs when Columbus landed in the New World. It would be the first
tomb of an Aztec
ruler ever found.
The find could provide an extraordinary window into Aztec
civilization at its apogee. Ahuizotl (ah-WEE-zoh-tuhl), an
empire-builder who extended the Aztecs'' reach as far as Guatemala, was the last emperor to complete his rule before the Spanish Conquest.
Accounts written by Spanish priests suggest the area was used by the
Aztecs to cremate and bury their rulers. But no tomb of an Aztec ruler
has ever been found, in part because the Spanish conquerors built their
own city atop the Aztec''s ceremonial center, leaving behind colonial
structures too historically valuable to remove for excavations.
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