A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . e truth is ]irobably midw:; most important remaining structure of sup-posed Nahuatl erection is the temple of Xochi-calco, not far southwest of Mexico City. Thebest preserved wall is 60 feet long and 13 feethigh, the massive stones skilfully carved withrepresentations of the feathered serpent, humanfigures, and other objects. Near this is anotherimportant ruin, the temple of Tepoztlan, a mas-sive structure on a high clift, containing an Az-tec symbol corresjionding to our year 1502. According to Bandel
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . e truth is ]irobably midw:; most important remaining structure of sup-posed Nahuatl erection is the temple of Xochi-calco, not far southwest of Mexico City. Thebest preserved wall is 60 feet long and 13 feethigh, the massive stones skilfully carved withrepresentations of the feathered serpent, humanfigures, and other objects. Near this is anotherimportant ruin, the temple of Tepoztlan, a mas-sive structure on a high clift, containing an Az-tec symbol corresjionding to our year 1502. According to Bandelier, some of the stonewalls in New Mexico are fully as well laid assome he examined in ruins in the Aztec southward from the old Aztec realm,the next important tribe of a ditterent stockwas the Tzapoteco, or Zapotec, about wherethe present state of Oaxaea lies, and whereZapotec Indians still live. This is a dry regionwith a sparse vegetation, and the remains aredifferent from any others. The best known arethe niins of Mitla, in the state of Oaxaea,896 XXX UJ H <. CO i 0) <^ 33 HO H ffiO
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