The label on its pedestal reads “Piedra del Sol,” or “Stone of ... common name is “Aztec Calendar Stone.” Other uncertainties include the date of its creation, its original location ...

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 eventually become a national treasure.

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through ... read a paper on the Aztec Calendar, or Mexican calendar stone, from which an insight has been obtained to ...

But Monday, nine men lowered a large Aztec calendar onto its home ... D.C., Milbrath said. The original stone, which represents the universe and is filled with Aztec symbols, is believed to ...

At the centre of their cosmology, however, stood the sun, famously represented in the Aztec Calendar Stone. For the Aztecs, it was the fifth sun, following the earlier four suns having come to an ...

The drugs were part of a nearly 90-pound shipment that appeared to be colorful, decorative Mexican items, including the replicas of the 500-year-old Aztec calendar stone. The U.S. Attorney's ...

An illustration of the Aztec calendar stone surrounds a young portrait of anthropologist Zelia Nuttall. “Mrs. Nuttall’s investigations of the Mexican calendar appear to furnish for the first ...

Many scientists believe that the heart of the Sun Stone or Aztec Calendar was the face of Tonatiuh, god of the sun There is a special relationship between a solar eclipse, like this April 8 ...

This is a stone carving of Tlazolteotl, an Aztec figure shown giving birth, that is in the collection of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. Photograph by The Washington Post When acquired in 1947 ...

“There’s a class gift,” he said. “It’s a 4- or 5-foot diameter Aztec calendar stone. “I just thought to myself, ‘Wow, that would be kind of neat to incorporate in the uniform someda ...