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Mexica Sun Stone
Material	Basalt
Discovered	17 December 1790 at El Zócalo, Mexico City
Present location	National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

The Aztec calendar stone, Mexica sun stone, or Stone of the Sun (Spanish: Piedra del Sol), is a large monolithic sculpture that was excavated in the Zócalo, Mexico City's main square, on December 17, 1790.^[1]

Contents 1 Description 2 See also 3 References 4 Sources 5 External links

[edit] Description

Measuring about 3.6 metres (12 ft) in diameter, 1.22 metres (4 ft) in thickness and weighing 24 tonnes,^[2] the original basalt version is presently on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. Images from the Sun Stone appear on the reverse of Mexican peso coins of all denominations. This basalt sculpture is a representation of the Aztec calendar^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] See also

• List of megalithic sites

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

León y Gama, Antonio de. Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras: que con ocasión del empedrado que se está formando en la plaza Principal de México, se hallaron en ella el año de 1790. Impr. de F. de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1792. An expanded edition, with descriptions of additional sculptures (like the Stone of Tizoc), edited by Carlos Maria Bustamante, published in 1832. There have been a couple of facsimile editions, published in the 1980s and 1990s.

• Solis, Felipe. "La Piedra del Sol." Arqueologia Mexicana 7(41):32-39. Enero - Febrero 2000.

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Aztec sun stone

Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Stone of the Sun and the First Chapter of Mexican History, written by Enrique Juan Palacios (1920), translated by Frederick Starr

• Mysteries of the Fifth Sun: The Aztec Calendar
• The Aztec Sun Stone
• The Sun Stone
• The Aztec Sunstone Calendar
• Library of Congress digital edition of Leon y Gama's 1792 work on the Calendar Stone