Tzompantli
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A tzompantli or skull rack was a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations, which was used for the public display of human skulls, typically those of war captive
A tzompantli, illustrated in the 16th-century Aztec manuscript, the Durán Codex
Chichén Itzá tzompantli
A tzompantli is illustrated to the right of a depiction of an Aztec temple dedicated to the deity Huītzilōpōchtli; from Juan de Tovar's 1587 manuscript, also known as the Tovar Codex.
Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
Templo Mayor
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The Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenōchtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
Tzompantli
…c. 900–1250 CE). In 2015 archeologists announced the discovery of the Huey Tzompantli, with more than 650 skulls, in the archeological zone of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. The name comes from the Classical Nahuatl language of the Aztecs but is also commonly applied to similar structures depicted in other…
Aerial image of the Templo Mayor
View of the Templo Mayor and the surrounding buildings.
Disk depicting a dismembered Coyolxauhqui which was found during construction in 1978
Scale model of the Templo Mayor of Tenōchtitlan showing the various stages as it was enlarged over time.