Ruins of house built after Spanish conquest found by archaeologists in Mexico

The remains of the house, whose adaptations are of indigenous construction, may have been occupied by Spaniards during the early viceroyalty period between 1521 and 1620 A.D. INAH’s Urban Archaeology Program also found Prehispanic traces of a platform and floor made of basalt slabs on an open plaza. Three years after cleaning and restoring Mexico’s overthrown ‘Tenochtitlan’ as much as possible, the hosts of Hernán Cortés eventually returned to prepare and adapt areas for their reuse. Almost 500 years after the conquest of the capital of the Mexican empire, archaeologists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered the ruins of a house erected shortly after the fall – readapting the sacred enclosure of ‘Tenochca’. Amidst the cold walls of the 19th century building, located on 17 Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City, a team of specialists from the Urban Archaeology Program (PAU) of