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The massive object at the heart of Mexico’s largest and most popular museum is so mysterious that nobody knows quite what to call it. The label on its pedestal reads “Piedra del Sol,” or ...
The stone has long been an emblem of Mexican identity. Commissioned by the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II (r. 1502–1520), the nearly 12-foot-wide stone was completed during his reign, in about 1511.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS were stunned after workers dug up a “gigantic mysterious oval stone” which has been dated back more than 500 years to the time of the Aztecs.
As part of a restoration project, archaeologists in Mexico City recently excavated a portion of Huei Tzompantli—an ancient Aztec tower, which sits below street level. During the process, they ...
Aztec human skull wall found in Mexico 08/21/2015 August 21, 2015. Archaeologists have discovered a huge ceremonial skull rack in Mexico dating from the time of the Aztecs.
At a former Catholic convent in Tepoztlán, Mexico, archaeologists discovered a mural linked to Tepoztecatl, Aztec god of pulque, an alcohol.
Inside, the 3-foot-wide mural, found on three chapel walls, contained a plume of feathers, an ax, a wand with flowers and a chimalli — a pre-Hispanic shield symbol, archaeologists said.