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This is the capital of the Aztec empire, rebuilt in 3D

A Dutch artist recreated the mighty Tenochtitlan - modern Mexico City as it would have stood in the year 1518. Thomas Kole is a videogame designer for museums who reconstructed the Aztec capital from historical and archeological sources using the open-source 3D modelling software Blender.

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