Templo Mayor Museum

This guide to the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City opens with the Aztec ballgame tlachtli, played on a court beside the pyramid, and the myth of Huitzilopochtli's battle with his sister the moon and their four hundred siblings the stars. You'll hear about the 1978 discovery of a carved stone disc showing the goddess Coyolxauhqui, and archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma's decades excavating seven stacked versions of the temple beneath modern Mexico City. Listen for how the myth and the physical dig line up at the foot of the temple steps.