SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY
Aztec Artifacts

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The Stone of Tizoc shows the victories of Tizoc, the seventh ruler (1481-1486). On it are carved fifteen scenes, each with two figures: the conqueror Tizoc and the leader of the vanquished people. In reality Tizoc's his reign was a military diasaster. The stone is 2.65 metres in diameter. Museo Nacional de Antropología Mexico City.

 

 

 

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