Solar DiscDisco Solar o Tezcacuitlapilli found in the Burned Palace of Tula.

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This disc was made with 300 turquoise plates mounted on a wooden plate and divided into four sections with pyrite fragments that alternated with four flowers in the middle. This piece confirms the network of exchanges between Tula and Casas Grandes Chihuahua and the Southwest of the USA

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Size: 4784px × 4000px
Location: Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico
Photo credit: © Diana Sanchez / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: 2017, antique, archaeology, burned, cultures, disc, exhibition, inah, mesoamerica, mexican, mna, museum, original, palace, pre-columbian, pre-hispanic, precolumbian, pyrite, solar, tezcacuitlapilli, tula, turquoise