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'The Aztec Calendar Stone, or Stone of the Sun, National Museum, Mexico City', c1930s. Creator: Unknown.

'The Aztec Calendar Stone, or Stone of the Sun, National Museum, Mexico City', c1930s. A name glyph of Aztec ruler Moctezuma II suggests the basalt Aztec sun stone was carved c1502- 1521, it depicts the cosmology of the Aztecs and is now in the National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City. From "Tour of the World". [Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa., New York, Chicago, London].

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Title:

'The Aztec Calendar Stone, or Stone of the Sun, National Museum, Mexico City', c1930s. Creator: Unknown.

Caption:

'The Aztec Calendar Stone, or Stone of the Sun, National Museum, Mexico City', c1930s. A name glyph of Aztec ruler Moctezuma II suggests the basalt Aztec sun stone was carved c1502- 1521, it depicts the cosmology of the Aztecs and is now in the National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City. From "Tour of the World". [Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa., New York, Chicago, London]

Personalities:

AZTEC

Technique/material:

Photograph

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Album / The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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4616 x 4761 px | 62.9 MB

Print size:

39.1 x 40.3 cm | 15.4 x 15.9 in (300 dpi)

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