Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . edral, begun in 1573 and into whosefoundations went the famous Calendar Stone and other treasures ofthe past to lie buried and forgotten three centuries before they wererecovered and removed to the Museo Nacional for preservation. Closeliy, the National Palace was erected upon that of Montezuma. Asingle square to the north, and only a few feet below street level, thefoundations of other Aztec structures razed by the Conquerors havebeen left exposed under protection of the Department of PrehispanicMonuments. For a few centavos o
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . edral, begun in 1573 and into whosefoundations went the famous Calendar Stone and other treasures ofthe past to lie buried and forgotten three centuries before they wererecovered and removed to the Museo Nacional for preservation. Closeliy, the National Palace was erected upon that of Montezuma. Asingle square to the north, and only a few feet below street level, thefoundations of other Aztec structures razed by the Conquerors havebeen left exposed under protection of the Department of PrehispanicMonuments. For a few centavos one may ride in a libri, Mexicos ubiquitoustaxicab, along the Acry line of the Coyoacan causeway on which Cortezcrossed the lake to enter the city November 8, 1519, and one mayleave by the Tacuba causeway, on which the Spaniards sufifered sucha devastating defeat during their midnight flight of July 10, mile north of Tacuba is Atzcapotzalco, the Chichimeca town wheremost of Montezumas gold ornaments were made and whose ancient 53 54 SMITIISOMAX INSTITITIOX. Fig. 54.—The Municipality of Cholula has a church for each day of the one crowns tlie Toltec pyramid of Quetzalcoatl.
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