Home›Open Questions›How many individuals are held in the great skull rack of Tenochtitlan?Open QuestionsHow many individuals are held in the great skull rack of Tenochtitlan?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "How many individuals are held in the great skull rack of Tenochtitlan?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/how-many-individuals-are-held-in-the-great-skull-rack-of-tenochtitlan.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). How many individuals are held in the great skull rack of Tenochtitlan?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/how-many-individuals-are-held-in-the-great-skull-rack-of-tenochtitlanCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-how-many-individuals-are-held-in-the-gre, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {How many individuals are held in the great skull rack of Tenochtitlan?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/how-many-individuals-are-held-in-the-great-skull-rack-of-tenochtitlan}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe structure runs under standing colonial buildings on Calle Guatemala in the Centro Historico of Mexico City, and only the portion reachable around them has been exposed. Every published count is a count of that partial exposure and has risen with each season of work. No scholar has proposed a total, so this is a gap rather than a disagreement. The sixteenth-century figures are narrative rather than counts and cannot stand in for one.What would resolve this Full exposure of the structure, which would require access beneath the buildings above it, together with a minimum-number-of-individuals count taken across the complete assemblage rather than across the reachable part. Short of that, a defensible estimate would need the geometry of the excavated portion projected onto the full plan of the rack, published with its assumptions.OpenArchaeology and bioarchaeology, with urban heritage engineering for access beneath protected colonial buildings.Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Programa de Arqueologia Urbana: the Huei Tzompantli excavations at the Templo MayorCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnThe Huei Tzompantli Excavation, Studies Well-attested Source Programa de Arqueologia Urbana: the Huei Tzompantli excavations at the Templo MayorInstituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historiatier 1SourcesPrograma de Arqueologia Urbana: the Huei Tzompantli excavations at the Templo Mayortier 1Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 2015Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year