Reuters The interior of a stone box shows an Aztec offering including a set of black flint knives decorated to represent warriors Only around a tenth of the box has been excavated but plenty of ...

Two large skulls, believed to be carved from imported volcanic stone and weighing ... spring during the Aztec period. Melitón Tapia, INAH Experts identified the sculpture as Xipe Tótec - a ...

For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in ... obsidian blades and stone sculptures. The sculptures imitated the face of Tlaloc, the Mexica god of rain, archaeologists said.

including the famous Aztec Calendar Stone, known as Piedra del Sol, as well as the ancient statue of Xochipilli, the Aztec god of art, games, beauty, dance and maize (among others). The museum ...