Davíd Carrasco is Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Divinity School at Harvard University. He was recently awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle.

Leonardo López Luján is senior researcher and professor at the Museo del Templo Mayor, INAH, Mexico City.

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma is Mexico's most prominant archaeologist. He is the curator and chief excavator at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City.