A portrait of Tenochtitlan

https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/index.html

A 3D recreation of the capital of the Aztec empire, with comparisons with modern day Mexico City.

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Naminreb@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y

These renderings are so amazing and accurate.

I spent a lot of time at Templo Mayor, and I always wondered how things would have looked like. This is how getting in a Time Machine and traveling to the past must feel like.

Every time I traveled to Mexico City from Veracruz, I wondered how it must have been for the first Spaniards to encounter such a city for the first time. Now I know.

Absolutely mesmerizing. And the overlays with the city finally helped me understand how the city could have grown on top of the lake.

Thanks for posting!

MisterNeon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Glorious.