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<< Our Photo Pages >> Texcotzingo - Ancient Palace in Mexico

Submitted by AlexHunger on Friday, 04 December 2020  Page Views: 15351

Multi-periodSite Name: Texcotzingo Alternative Name: Tetzcozingo, Molino de Flores Parc
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 20.328 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Palace
Nearest Town: Mexico City  Nearest Village: Texcoco de Mora
Latitude: 19.497450N  Longitude: 98.8182W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
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 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Texcotzingo submitted by Flickr : The Queen's bathtub Site in Mexico Image copyright: Leo Crespo, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Palace of the Poet King Netzahualcoyotl which had rock hewn baths, conference rooms, treasury, statues created. Adjacent to the Axtec city of Texcoco, the palace included gardens watered by an extensive hydraulic system, which were decorated by statues and carvings associating the gardens Aztec mythology.

Designed in the 15th century, the palace and grounds are interpreted as both a symbol of imperial power and a pleasure centre for the aristocracy. The nearby city of Texcoco was the second only to the capital, Tenochtitlan, in both population and importance at the time of the Spanish conquest.

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Texcotzingo submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec Palace and baths near Mexico City. Scanned photos dating back to 1982 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Texcotzingo submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec Palace and baths near Mexico City. Mr. Hunger Senior for scale in the tub. Scanned photos dating back to 1982 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Texcotzingo submitted by Flickr : The aqueduct at Texcotzingo. Site in Mexico Image copyright: Leo Crespo, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Texcotzingo submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec Palace and baths near Mexico City. Scanned photos dating back to 1982 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Texcotzingo submitted by Flickr : Hills Texcotzingo Site in Mexico Aztecas Image copyright: Jose Luis l840 (Jose Luis Retama España), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Texcotzingo submitted by Flickr : View from la banos de la rey (the king's baths) Image copyright: virginiaglee, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Texcotzingo submitted by Flickr : Texcotzingo entry. This was a small room facing the fuente and aqueduct, that had a platform in the centre. shrine-throne Image copyright: virginiaglee, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Texcotzingo submitted by Flickr : The Queen's bathtub at sunset. Site in Mexico Tezcotzinco Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold, Thou wert sometime the garden of a king. The birds have sought a lovelier place to sing. The flowers are few. It was not so of old. It was not thus when hand in hand there strolled Through arbors perfumed with undying Spring Bare bodies beautiful, brown, glistening, Decked wi...

Texcotzingo
Texcotzingo submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec Palace and baths near Mexico City. Scanned photos dating back to 1982

Texcotzingo
Texcotzingo submitted by durhamnature : Plan of the palace, from "Mexican Archaeology" via archive.org Site in Mexico

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Re: Texcotzingo by Anonymous on Thursday, 30 January 2014
This is my childhood favorite place to visit every summer. My grandmother still lives near t door. She is 100 years old a d has many stories no one will ever know to preserve the hill.
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Aztec Maps Put Cortés to Shame by bat400 on Monday, 03 October 2011
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As far as tax collectors in colonial Mexico went, Gonzalo de Salazar, "El Gordo," was a pinchpenny. The conquistador-turned-regional-chief demanded steep tributes from Tepetlaoxtoc just north of what is now Mexico City. To expose El Gordo's greed, census takers from the Acolhua-Aztecs, a subset of the larger Aztec group, set out to count their own numbers in the mid-1500s and tally the extent of their farmland and hence their tax burden. They did a remarkably good job, a new study suggests. The early surveyors calculated the sizes of their farms with a degree of accuracy likely beyond the means of El Gordo or his cronies.

The Tepetlaoxtoc census, also known as the Codex Vergara, was much more than a simple survey. This record incorporated icons for every adult and child in the region, as well as detailed maps for at least 386 farms. The surveyors measured the borders around each of these fields and then calculated their areas in square tlalcuahuitls, units equal to roughly 2.5 meters.

Using these records, Clara Garza-Hume, a mathematician (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City) and colleagues went back to the codex to check the Aztecs' math.

What the team could do, however, was calculate the wiggle range of possible shapes for each of the fields. And the surveyors "did quite well" in matching those shapes, she says. The Aztecs calculated the sizes of their farms within a 10% error range about 85% of the times.

But the Aztecs could just have easily have fudged their measurements, trying to trick their governor out of a few spools of cloth. Luckily, a field near the modern town of Texcoco still vouches for their honesty; this sloping lot contains the remnants of 38 old farms censused in the codex. Using GPS markers, the 38 farms had once taken up about 135,577 square meters, not too far off from the Aztecs' estimate of 124,072 square meters.

The Codex Vergara did put the Spanish in their place, at least mathematically. Early colonialists were largely clueless when it came to land surveys, rarely knowing for sure where their expansive cattle ranches started or stopped, says geographer Andrew Sluyter (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.)

Studies like these are important because they show the Mesoamericans' prowess in fields outside of astronomy, says archaeologist Michael Smith (Arizona State University, Tempe.) Still, indigenous Mexicans didn't always use their record-keeping acumen for good, Smith adds. The Aztecs, conquerors themselves, would have needed meticulous notes to squeeze every penny out of their squashed foes.

Thanks to coldrum for the link to this article at news.sciencemag.org. See the article for more.
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Re: Texcotzingo by Anonymous on Monday, 07 December 2009
wow - as many times as i've been to mexico, i've never visited this site - thanks for the pics
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