The Modern Megacity · event 7 of 13

1978

The Templo Mayor is found. Electricity workers strike the Coyolxauhqui stone at the corner of the Zócalo, and the Aztec great temple is excavated over the following four years.

The The Modern Megacity era

  1. 1929
  2. 1934
  3. 1940
  4. 1952
  5. 1956
  6. 2 October 1968
  7. 1978
  8. 19 September 1985
  9. 1997
  10. 2000
  11. 2016
  12. 19 September 2017
  13. 2024

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