National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City

171 pp. Includes 153 full color photographs. "...treasures of Pre-Hispanic Mexico... range from the most ancient traces of primitive civilizations to the most polished examples of sixteenth-century Aztec culture--from the Pre-Classical small figures and pottery of the twelfth century B.C., and the urns, frescoes and colossal statues of the Classical period, to the ceremonial dishes, ornaments and giant votive tablets of the Post-Classical period, when the Spanish Conquistadors first set foot in the new world of Mexico."--jacket flap