This past Wednesday, December 17th, marked the 224th Anniversary of the discovery of the emblematic monument currently on display in the Mexica Hall of the National Anthropology Museum. After more than 200 years of being buried, the Aztec Sun Stone, the colossal monument that synthesizes the astronomical knowledge that the Mexica society (also known as Aztecs) developed before the Spanish conquest, was fortuitously found on December 17th, 1790 in the southern part of the Plaza Mayor (today known as the Zócalo) of Mexico City. Archeologist Bertina Olmedo Vera, Investigative Curator at the Museum, in her book titled “Sun Stone”, details how, due to the destruction of the Mexican city Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Spanish conquerors removed the monolith from its sacred site and placed it relief side up in the Zócalo to the west of the Spanish royal palace. The Sun Stone remained there until the second half of the 16th century when Archbishop Alonso de Montúfar had it flipped over an