Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . anguages spoken by their builders. Six milesnorth of the City the restored Pyramid of Tenayuca frowns uponthe emptiness of a town that furnished brave warriors for Monte-zumas armies. A similar Aztec pyramid, with its double stairway,looks out across the barranca of Cuernavaca, in the state of the palace Cortez is said to have built in 1530. Two hours away byauto are the terraces, courts, and pyramids of Xochicalco, the Houseof Flowers, whose builders are not yet certainly identified. In the state of Vera Cruz one fi
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . anguages spoken by their builders. Six milesnorth of the City the restored Pyramid of Tenayuca frowns uponthe emptiness of a town that furnished brave warriors for Monte-zumas armies. A similar Aztec pyramid, with its double stairway,looks out across the barranca of Cuernavaca, in the state of the palace Cortez is said to have built in 1530. Two hours away byauto are the terraces, courts, and pyramids of Xochicalco, the Houseof Flowers, whose builders are not yet certainly identified. In the state of Vera Cruz one finds the Totonacan ruins of Tajinand Cempoala, among others ; in Chiapas stands splendid Palenquewith its famed Temple of the Cross, a carved panel from which, nowin the Museo Nacional, was completed by the section received in 1862and returned to the Republic of Mexico by the Smithsonian Institu-tion in 1908. Of venerable Cholula, the Toltec religious center whichCortez credited with 20,000 houses and 400 temples, nothing remains SMITHSONIAN KXPLORATIONS, I935 57. Fig. 58.—Mitla was conquered by the Aztecs in the fifteenth century, but thispalace platform is still faced with its original, maroon-colored plaster.
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