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 ...
This is a stone carving of Tlazolteotl, an Aztec figure shown giving birth ... The Tzitzimitl—astral deities visible when the sun was in eclipse—were often benign figures, but when the ...
Reuters The interior of a stone box shows an Aztec offering including a set of ... the watery underworld the Aztecs believed the sun travelled through at night before emerging in the east to ...
This is the latter. Called Fuego Nuevo, it’s a unique piece from Louis Moinet that features a dial made from meteorite with a laser-etched replica of the Aztec Sun Stone. The dial is a disc cut ...
They are believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a skull rack some 60 metres (200ft) in diameter which stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun ...