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<< Our Photo Pages >> Tula. - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Hidalgo

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 12 September 2010  Page Views: 16019

Multi-periodSite Name: Tula. Alternative Name: Tollan
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 60.346 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Hidalgo Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mexico City  Nearest Village: Tula de Allende
Latitude: 20.066980N  Longitude: 99.337137W
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1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Tula.
Tula. submitted by LivingRocks : The Atlantes statues at Tula. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient City in Hidalgo State, Mexico.
Tula was built and occupied from approximately 750 to 1168 AD. At its height the population is estimated to have been over 30000. A city of the Toltec civilization, its monumental architecture includes pyramids, bas-relief decorated palaces, colonnaded meeting rooms, and ball courts.

Sites include massive decorative "Atlantean" figures.
One of the statues is a copy, as the original is in the Mexico City Archeological Museum.
The location is approximate.

Note: Conference on Archaeo-astronomy to be held at Mexico's Tula site. See comment for details.
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Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Frieze along bottom of Temple building. Probably Alligator eating enemy. Scans of pictures dating to 1982. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures-Stone sacrifice figure. I believe they were called Chacmols. Scans of pictures dating to 1982. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Reassembled stele near parking lot. In same style as the much larger "Atlants." Scans of pictures dating to 1982. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Close up of "Atlant." One of them is also in the Archeology Museum in Mexico, for those unable to come all the wayy to Tula. Scans of pictures dating to 1982. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tula.
Tula. submitted by SolarMegalith : One of the Atlantes on top of Pyramid of the Morning Star in Tula (photo taken on March 2002).

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Backside of "Atlant" figure on main temple. Scans of pictures dating to 1982.

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Second pyramid. Scans of pictures dating to 1982.

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Secondary collumn with more carvings. Scans of pictures dating to 1982.

Tula.
Tula. submitted by SolarMegalith : Juego de pelota (the ballcourt) in Toltec capital (photo taken on March 2002).

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Large stone head. There were probably other parts to it. Scans of pictures dating to 1982.

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Ballcourt, as seen from the main pyramid. Scans of pictures dating to 1982.

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Ballcourt Scans of pictures dating to 1982.

Tula.
Tula. submitted by AlexHunger : Impressive settlement and temples with Large "Atlant" warrior/God figures- Main Pyramid Scans of pictures dating to 1982.

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Astronomical Observation to Be Held at Tula Archaeological Zone by bat400 on Sunday, 12 September 2010
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Submitted by coldrum---

The Archaeological Zone of Tula, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, will open its doors for the first time at night, to receive visitors for the academic event Los Caminos del Cielo, Noche de Observacion Astronomica (Roads of the Sky, Night of Astronomical Observation) to take place on Friday, September 10th 2010, where telescopes will be installed at the central esplanade of this Prehispanic site.


According to Nahua informants of Bernardino de Sahagun, Toltecas were great sky observers, “they knew…the stars, they gave them names…knowing well how the sky moved, how it rotated”. Architectonic orientation of the main buildings at Tula confirms this idea, declared archaeologist Alfonso Torres, researcher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

Under this premise, from 17:00 hours of Friday September 10th 2010, the general public will be able to enter the archaeological zone, admission free, to participate in the academic activities programmed for the occasion.

Astronomical observation night is organized by INAH and the Astronomical Society of Hidalgo A.C. (SAH), supported by the Tula City Hall, in charge of implementing security actions.

The activity will be guided by SAH specialists, association that will lend more than 40 professional telescopes, to be placed facing towards different constellations. Miguel Angel Mendoza, researcher at Hidalgo INAH Center and coordinator of the activity, mentioned that observation devises will be placed at the main esplanade, besides the Central Altar, where Prehispanic chants and dances will take place.

Conferences part of the academic gathering are: “Positional Archaeo-astronomy”, imparted by historian Gilberto Morales Fuentes from the SAH; “Codices, Deities and Stars in Ancient Mexico”, in charge of archaeologist Alfonso Torres, as well as “Wars of Venus in Tula”, imparted by Dr. Robert Cobean, also researcher at Hidalgo INAH Center. All lectures will be in Spanish.

For more, see http://www.artdaily.org,
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Re: Tula. by Anonymous on Monday, 12 October 2009
who discovered tula? im doing a project and i cant find that anywhere
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Re: Tula. by bat400 on Wednesday, 01 August 2007
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Submitted by coldrum --- Another article on the human sacrifice found at Tula.

Mexico has a wealth of pre-Hispanic archaeological sites, and new discoveries are constantly being made -- sometimes by accident. In 1978, workers in downtown Mexico City were digging down in order to install some cable, and they accidentally discovered the Aztec temple called the Templo Mayor, which has since been excavated and a museum has been put on the site.

In the spring of 2007 another accidental discovery, at a construction site in central Mexico, revealed a gruesome example of human child sacrifice.

The tomb was found near Tula, about 50 miles north of Mexico City. Tula was the capital of the Toltec culture, which thrived from the AD 900s to 1100s. The Aztecs looked up to the Toltecs as their civilizers.

This new discovery at Tula is of a tomb containing two dozen sacrificed children. They appear to have been sacrificed between AD 950 and 1150, during the Toltec Golden Age. Apparently all but one of them were between the ages of five and 15.

Why do archaeologists think they were sacrificed? For one thing, the ritualistic manner in which the skeletons are placed together indicates sacrifice, plus cut marks on their bones are consistent with it. And within the tomb an idol of Tlaloc, worshipped as a rain god, was found, which could provide motive for the sacrifice.

As well, an interesting detail is that a turquoise artifact was recovered from the tomb. Turquoise was a mineral found in what is now the U.S. Southwest, so this artifact may have been from there, having traveled the long distance from the Southwest to Tula on the trade routes.

Human sacrifice was widespread in the Mesoamerican civilizations. ....
Some contemporary Mexicans are reticent to recognize that human sacrifice existed among the cultures of Mesoamerica. As a result, a far-fetched explanation has been cooked up to explain it away.
I’ve been told by some Mexicans that this or that Mesoamerican culture did not practice human sacrifice, and what they were actually engaged in was advanced medical techniques that the Spaniards misunderstood.

For more, including comments on human sacrifice and its place in multiple world cultures, see this link.
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Ancient Tomb Found in Mexico Reveals Mass Child Sacrifice by bat400 on Friday, 15 June 2007
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The skeletons of two dozen children killed in an ancient mass sacrifice have been found in a tomb at a construction site in Mexico. The find reveals new details about the ancient Toltec civilization and adds to an ongoing debate over ritualistic killing in historic Mesoamerica.

Construction crews unearthed the burial chamber this spring near the town of Tula, the ancient Toltec capital. The chamber contained 24 skeletons of children believed to have been sacrificed between A.D. 950 and 1150, according to Luis Gamboa, an archaeologist at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
All but one of the children were between 5 to 15 years of age, and they were likely killed as an offering to the Toltec rain god Tlaloc, Gamboa said.
The Toltec, a pre-Aztec civilization that thrived from the 10th to 12th centuries, had not been previously thought to have sacrificed children. But the ritualistic placement of the skeletons, cut marks on bones, and the presence of a figurine of Tlaloc led Gamboa to conclude the children had been sacrificed to bring rain.
"To try and explain why there are 24 bodies grouped in the same place, well, the only way is to think that there was a human sacrifice," Gamboa told the Reuters news agency.
"You can see evidence of incisions, which make us think they possibly used sharp-edged instruments to decapitate them."

For more, see
National Geographic.
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