The 4,255 pound bar gold bar. (Credit: Digital archive, MNA-INAH-CANNON)At present spot gold prices, the bar would be worth approximately $105.5 million.
The composition of the bar matched the other gold pieces that were discovered by an INAH excavation of the main temple in Tenochtitlán, making it likely the giant gold bar also belonged to the Aztecs, the statement added.
The gold that was found at Templo Mayor also matched gold pieces around the monolith of the goddess Tlatecgutli that were discovered at the temple, LiveScience reports.
“If these values are compared with those recorded in the graph of Mesoamerican geographical areas of use, we will realize that the ingot is located within the group of pieces recovered by the Templo Mayor Project,” Ruvalcaba noted.
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Ruvalcaba continued: “Even more interesting is that it is perfectly located in the region occupied by our later pieces, those of stage VI (1486-1502 AD), and particularly those found around the monolith of the goddess Tlaltecuhtli, as it is the case of offerings 122, 123,125 and 149. The above is significant, since the ingot would have been cast between 1519 and 1520 AD.”
In a separate discovery, archaeologists discovered the first-ever Aztec royal tomb, finding an array of sacrificial remains during an excavation at the base of the Templo Mayor temple site in downtown Mexico City in 2019.
Other grisly discoveries have been revealing aspects of the Aztecs’ bloodthirsty culture. A vast array of skulls buried at the Templo Mayor, for example, offers a chilling glimpse into Aztec human sacrifice.
In 2012, archaeologists announced the discovery of the skeleton of a young woman surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones in the Templo Mayor.
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