Editing Coyolxāuhqui (section)

=== Discovery ===
[[File:MAF 0019174-038 (33327115952).jpg|left|thumb|Archaeologists of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia working at the place were the stone was discovered, 1978.]]

On February 21, 1978, a group of workers for the Mexico City electric power company came across a large shield-shaped stone covered in reliefs while digging.<ref name=":8">{{Cite journal|last=MATOS MOCTEZUMA|first=EDUARDO|title=Archaeology & Symbolism in Aztec Mexico: The Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan |date=December 1985|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion|volume=53|issue=4 |pages=797–813|doi=10.1093/jaarel/liii.4.797}}</ref> The stone they uncovered depicts the narrative of Coyolxāuhqui's defeat at Coatepec, shown at left. The discovery renewed the interest in excavating the ancient city of [[Tenochtitlán]] underneath [[Mexico City]]. This led to the excavation of the Huēyi Teōcalli ([[Templo Mayor]]), directed by [[Eduardo Matos Moctezuma]].<ref name=":2" />[[File:Coyolxauhqui en el Museo Nacional de Antropología.JPG|right|thumb|Head of Coyolxāuhqui; circa 1500; [[diorite]]; 80 x 80 x 65 cm; [[National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)|National Museum of Anthropology]] ([[Mexico City]]). As usual, she is shown decapitated and with closed eyelids, as her brother, Huitzilopochtli, beheaded her.|220x220px]]
This relief is one of the best known Aztec monuments and one of the few great Aztec monuments to have been found fully ''in situ''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Boone|first=Elizabeth|title=The "Coatlicues" at the Templo Mayor |date=1999|journal=Ancient Mesoamerica|volume=10|issue=2 |page=189|doi=10.1017/s0956536199102098|s2cid=161679253 }}</ref>