{"id":1463,"date":"2026-12-17T00:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-12-17T05:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:40:23","slug":"aztec-stone-calendar-was-discovered-in-mexico-city-in-1790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Aztec Stone Calendar Was Discovered in Mexico City in 1790"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15477\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15477\" class=\"wp-image-15477 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Aztec-Calendar-Stone-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec Calendar Stone<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Aztec stone calendar was discovered in Mexico City in 1790.<\/strong> The huge stone, weighing almost 25\u00a0tons and measuring over eleven feet in diameter, was probably carved around 1479. It was buried soon after the Spanish arrived. The stone demonstrated how the Aztec 52-year calendar cycle worked. Children\u00a0could also see how to make a simple calendar stone at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ummuseumeducation.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/aztec-calendar-stone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aztec Calendar Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aztec stone calendar was discovered in Mexico City in 1790. The huge stone, weighing almost 25\u00a0tons and measuring over eleven feet in diameter, was probably carved around 1479. It was buried soon after the Spanish arrived. The stone demonstrated how the Aztec 52-year calendar cycle worked. Children\u00a0could also see how to make a simple calendar <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1463' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4548,4546,77,1130,4547],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4548","tag-aztec-stone-calendar","tag-december-17","tag-mexico","tag-mexico-city","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29913,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/29913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}