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THE NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY MUSEUM

It is located in Mexico City on avenida Paseo de la Reforma and Calzada Gandhi in colonia Chapultepec Polanco. The nearest subway atations are auditorio and Chapultepe. The museo nacional the  Anthropogia open on 1971, in a fine new building design by arquitect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez. The ground floor focuses on the native cultures and sociaty of Mexico. The famous Aztec sun stone is only a small part of the fantastic collection of artwork from the indigenous population of Mexico. It is in room seven (sala mexica) of the museum.It was discovered buried beneath the zocalo in 1790, it was originally thought to be a calender and for a brieftima, a sacrifical altar. In the stone's center is the sun god tonatiuh. The Aztecz believed that prior to there existence the world had gone throught four periods("suns") of creation and destruction. The ring arounmd the panels is filled with sumbols representing the tweenty days of the Aztecs month. finally two snakes form an outer ring and point toa date 1011A.D. when the fifth sun ( the Aztecs current world) was created.