Miami Herald
BY BRENDAN RASCIUS
OCTOBER 20, 2023 5:10 PM
A colossal Aztec snake head sculpture emerged from the ground in Mexico City during an earthquake in September 2022, officials said. The stone sculpture, which weighs 1.2 tons, was found in the disturbed soil about 15 feet below a local university. Archaeologists carefully extracted the artifact from beneath the school, and have been analyzing it over the course of the past year, according to an Oct. 10 news release from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).