18.9503°N, 99.4950°W.
The Cuauhcalli ("House of Eagles") at Malinalco in the State of Mexico is one of the most extraordinary monuments of the Aztec world — a temple carved directly into the living volcanic rock of a mountainside above the modern town. The temple was excavated under the Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl and his successor Moctezuma II, between approximately 1486 and 1515 CE, using stone tools to hollow out a circular interior chamber 5 metres in diameter from solid bedrock. The interior contains a circular bench carved with two eagles flanking a jaguar — the totemic animals of the Aztec military orders of Eagle and Jaguar Knights. The temple was an initiation chamber for the elite warrior orders. José García Payón excavated and consolidated the site for INAH in 1936.
The Cuauhcalli is a temple carved out of solid rock from above with stone tools, with the bench and the floor and the walls all the same continuous piece of mountain.
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|---|---|---|
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