MEXICO: Where Three Empires Built on the Same Soil

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In 1978, electrical workers digging beneath a street in central Mexico City struck a carved stone the size of a car — and uncovered the buried heart of an empire that had been paved over for four and a half centuries. Mexico City does not sit beside its ancient past. It sits directly on top of it: a megacity of more than twenty million people, built on the rubble of Spanish New Spain, which was built on the razed Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, which rose from a lake the city is now slowly sinking back into.

This is the story of one valley that has been the seat of power for every civilization to rule this land — and what it means to live on ground that keeps its receipts.

In this documentary, discover how three empires came to share a single patch of earth, why the largest city in North America drops by inches every year, and how the eagle, the lake, and the language of the first empire all quietly outlived the ones that tried to erase them.
Take a breath. Stay a while.

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