Who Created the Aztec Calendar Stone

Although earlier scholars thought that the stone was carved in the 1470s, during the reign of the Aztec emperor Axayacatl, most writers today believe Moctezuma Xocoyotzin

Who discovered the Calendar Stone?

17, 1790: Aztec Calendar Stone Discovered. Go to updated and illustrated post. 1790: Workers doing repairs in Mexico City unearth a massive stone bearing ancient symbols.

How did the Aztecs make the calendar?

Like the Mayan calendar, the Aztec calendar consisted of a ritual cycle of 260 days and a 365-day civil cycle. The ritual cycle, or tonalpohualli, contained two smaller cycles, an ordered sequence of 20 named days and a sequence of days numbered from 1 to 13.