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Exhibition of Pre-Columbian Funerary Art Opens at Egyptian Museum

BARCELONA.- Under the title Pre-Columbian Funerary Art, the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona exhibits a series of pieces that are representative of the main cultures present in the areas of Mesoamerica, Centro-America and the Andes, before the arrival of any Europeans and the subsequent as well as abrupt culture upheaval that this entailed. Most of the objects on show were conceived and used as part of the funerary equipment that accompanied the deceased to their tombs. This protected and