The Aztec calendar is different from the Maya calendar. The latter one has recently gained wide popularity due to the year 2012 prediction of the end of the world. The Aztec and the Maya people, ...

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, and the ...

Located within the sprawling Chapultepec Forest, the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology) showcases artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian era, dating from about 100 B.C. to ...

Since 1998, the Dickinson Hall Courtyard at the University of Florida has been missing a key piece to its 30-year-old design. But Monday, nine men lowered a large Aztec calendar onto its home, ...

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