From jaguars to shooting stars, these rare and meaningful Náhuatl names are steeped in centuries of culture, cosmic symbolism ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1790: Workers doing repairs in Mexico City unearth a massive stone bearing ancient symbols. It turns out to be a representation of the Aztec calendar and will ...

Dawn of the Aztecs, Written in Stone. Digs & Discoveries July/August 2012. SHARE: ... the Aztec god of war and the sun. Bas-relief images of serpents with gaping mouths, ...

It was the third flat Aztec monolith to be discovered by accident in the vicinity of the Templo Mayor, along with a 24-ton black basalt Sun Stone (excavated in 1790) and an 8-ton Disk of ...

Here, in this store of unborn souls, they waited until the gods decided to place them in their mother’s belly. ... Aztec calendar or sun stone, 1512. National Museum of Anthropology, ...

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 disc is just 0.5 mm thick, and is covered in 9,800 lines of laser-etched sketches – with depths of 0.2 and 0,1 mm – to replicate the Piedra del Sol, created in 1479 and also known as the ...

Natalie Rivera, an artist from Detroit, paints Detroit wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown as the Aztec Sun God before an NFL football game at Ford Field on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan.