S5E211 - The Mexica Sun Stone: Aztec Calendar or Sacrificial Altar?

In 1790, workers repairing Mexico City's main plaza unearthed a massive carved stone that would become the symbol of the Aztec world — but its true purpose has been misunderstood for centuries. Lucas and Luna explore the Piedra del Sol, the so-called Aztec Calendar Stone, revealing its intricate iconography, its role in Mexica cosmology, and the fierce scholarly debate over whether it was a calendar, a sacrificial altar, or a monument to solar war. They trace its creation under Moctezuma II, its burial after the conquest, and its rediscovery in the shadow of the cathedral. Along the way, they decode the fo...