{"id":10013,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"aztec-pyramid-ruins-found-in-bad-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/aztec-pyramid-ruins-found-in-bad-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztec Pyramid Ruins Found in Bad Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br> Mexico City &#8211; In the news on August 2, 2007, Aztec pyramid ruins have resurfaced in a poor district of Mexico City after more than 500 years underground. Razed by Hernan Cortes in the sixteenth century, a construction project revealed walls from the Aztec pyramid ruins. The neighborhood of Iztapalapa in which the Aztec pyramid ruins were found is well-known for its drugs and violent crime. Due to urban congestion and overcrowding, the ruins of the Aztec pyramid found in June beneath the neighborhood&#8217;s central plaza have long remained hidden, although researchers knew generally where they lay. Other important ruins associated with the Aztec pyramid building culture have recently been excavated including an important <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10012\">Aztec altar<\/a>. The pyramid shown right is an example of the Aztec pyramid building ruins found, although obviously mainly intact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For more information on Italian Renaissance Art and book recommendations, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=10039\">click here.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico City &#8211; In the news on August 2, 2007, Aztec pyramid ruins have resurfaced in a poor district of Mexico City after more than 500 years underground. Razed by Hernan Cortes in the sixteenth century, a construction project revealed walls from the Aztec pyramid ruins. The neighborhood of Iztapalapa in which the Aztec pyramid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10249,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions\/10249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}