The Aztecs and the Mayans are the most popular among the Mesoamerican civilizations, but the Olmecs came first.

The clatter in the hall went dead. Silence enveloped the gathering. What was now heard was the thud of boots. It grew louder ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The lateral side of the stone depicts 15 separate scenes of a repeated scene of a costumed warrior having their hair grabbed by another warrior. Presumably the first figure, the warrior with the ...

Many art historians see this as a standard European ... Around her neck is a brooch—not the green stone Aztec deities often displayed but a cross. Her downcast eyes show that she isn’t a ...

During an often quiet season in the art world, several outstanding solo ... then combining them with bits of wire, stone and wool into potent sculptural assemblages evoking cockamamie scientific ...

For example, the myth of Popo and Itza, an Aztec legend ... a mysterious legacy in the form of 17 colossal stone heads. These massive sculptures, carved from volcanic basalt, depict enigmatic ...

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