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TOPSHOT - Aerial view of a model of a pyramid of ancient Tenochtitlan with a projection for the commemoration of the 500 anniversary of the resistance of Mexico-Tenochtitlan to the Spanish at the Zocalo square Mexico City on August 13, 2021. (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP) (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images)
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A 50-foot replica the original Templo Mayor pyramid displays a video-mapping show on the Zócalo square of Mexico City.
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L-R: Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer, grand chief of the Kahnawake Mohawk nation, Canada; Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico; Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, first lady of Mexico; Jamescita Mae Peshlakai, state senator of Arizona. Dignitaries pose before a 50-foot replica of the Templo Mayor or Great Temple of the Aztecs, on August 13, 2021, in the Historic Center of Mexico City.
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TOPSHOT - View of the illuminated decorations, as part of the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the resistance of Mexico-Tenochtitlan to the Spaniards in Zocalo Square Mexico City on August 12, 2021. - On August 13, the Mexican authorities will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the "fall" of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan to the conquistadors and their indigenous allies. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP) (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Indigenous people take part in the celebration of the 500 anniversary of the last day of domain ahead of the fall of Tenochtitlan to the Spanish at the Zocalo square in Mexico City on August 12, 2021. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP) (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - AUGUST 13: General view of the pyramid and light show during a ceremony to commemorate the 500 years of indigenous resistance in Mexico at Zocalo on August 13, 2021 in Mexico City, Mexico. On august 13, 1521, Spanish conquerors lead by Hernan Cortes alongside thousands of indigenous defeated the cities of Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco in which is considered as the conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. President Lopez Obrador and his government decided to commemorate the date not as a remembrance of the fall of the Mexica empire but as the 500 year of indigenous resistance in the country. (Photo by Adrián Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - Aerial view of a model of a pyramid of ancient Tenochtitlan with a projection for the commemoration of the 500 anniversary of the resistance of Mexico-Tenochtitlan to the Spanish at the Zocalo square Mexico City on August 13, 2021. (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP) (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images)
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MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — A replica of the Great Temple of the Aztecs, about a third of the size of the original, rose from the floor of the central square of Mexico’s capital this summer like a gargantuan child’s toy, more than 50 feet high, a gleaming form smack in front of the baroque National Palace. At night, the pyramid’s slanting white walls became a video-mapping screen that told a dramatic . . .
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