The '''Aztec sun stone''' ({{lang-es|link=no|Piedra del Sol}}) is a late post-classic [[Mexica]] sculpture housed in the [[Museo Nacional de Antropología|National Anthropology Museum]] in [[Mexico City]], and is perhaps the most famous work of [[Aztecs#Sculpture|Mexica]] sculpture]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/coleccion/pieza-243/ficha-basica.html |title=National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, "Sun Stone" |access-date=2014-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407104143/http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/coleccion/pieza-243/ficha-basica.html |archive-date=2014-04-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It measures {{convert|358|cm|in}} in diameter and {{convert|98|cm|in}} thick, and weighs {{cvt|24590|kg}}.<ref>Ordóñez, Esequiel (1893). La roca del Calendario Azteca (Primera Edición edición). México: Imprenta del Gobierno Federal. pp. 326–331.</ref> Shortly after the [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire|Spanish conquest]], the monolithic [[sculpture]] was buried in the [[Zócalo]], the main square of [[Mexico City]]. It was rediscovered on 17 December 1790 during repairs on the [[Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral|Mexico City Cathedral]].<!--NOTE, the INAH website entry for this has a typo, the 1970 date appearing there is not correct. See for eg the cite.--><ref>{{cite book|author=Florescano, Enrique|year=2006|title=National Narratives in Mexico|edition=English-language edition of ''Historia de las historias de la nación mexicana'', 2002 [Mexico City:Taurus]|others=Nancy T. Hancock (trans.), Raul Velasquez (illus.)|location=Norman|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]|isbn=0-8061-3701-0|oclc=62857841}}</ref> Following its rediscovery, the sun stone was mounted on an exterior wall of the cathedral, where it remained until 1885.<ref name="getty.edu">[https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/obsidian_mirror/aztec_calendar_stone.html Getty Museum, "Aztec Calendar Stone"] ''getty.edu'', accessed 22 August 2018</ref> Early scholars initially thought that the stone was carved in the 1470s, though modern research suggests that it was carved some time between 1502 and 1521.<ref>Villela, Khristaan. [http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/calendar/calendar-stone "The Aztec Calendar Stone or Sun Stone"], MexicoLore. Retrieved December 17, 2015.</ref>
