MEXICO CITY.- Hundreds of images of Prehispanic monuments and sites, created during the Colonial period and located in diverse archives, most of them outside Mexico, are being studied by archaeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan, and have became helpful docum…
Mexico’s Government Negotiates the Temporary Return of Moctezuma’s Headdress
MEXICO CITY.- Negotiations conducted for 3 years by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) before the Austrian Government, are about to reach a historical agreement that would bring M…
Pyramid that Contains Maya Tomb at Palenque Archaeological Zone Restored
MEXICO CITY.- The pyramidal building known as Temple 20 at Palenque Archaeological Zone, in Chiapas, where the existence of a funerary chamber that contains the remains of a high rank character has been confirmed, is being reinforced and restored by sp…
Skeletons and Architectural Vestiges Reveal an Occupation that Dates from 1,500 BC
MEXICO CITY.- Prehispanic ceramics, human skeletons and vestiges of dwelling and ceremonial areas are part of findings registered by archaeologists throughout a decade of explorations at Tepoztlan, Morelos; this discovering reveals that the site had an…
Archaeologists Use Total Station to Conduct 3D Scan of Prehispanic Shaft Tomb
MEXICO CITY.- Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) conducted for the first time the three-dimensional registration of a shaft tomb, underground spaces used during Prehispanic time as funerary chambers in the wes…
Mexican Funerary Masks Travel to France for Exhibition at the Pinacothèque de Paris
MEXICO CITY.- After its successful presentation at the National Anthropology Museum, the exhibition “Rostros de la divinidad. Los mosaicos mayas de piedra verde” (Faces of Divinity. Greenstone Maya Mosaics) will travel to Paris, France, where…
New Museum of the Mexican Revolution Inaugurated in Chihuahua
MEXICO CITY.- After architectural and museographic renovation that presents the strategic role the frontier with United States had during the Revolution, the former Ciudad Juarez Museum of History was inaugurated as the Museum of the Revolution at the…
The Second Stage of San Juan de Ulua Fortress in Veracruz Restoration Has Begun
MEXICO CITY.- The value enhancement of San Juan de Ulua Fortress in Veracruz Port, one of the priority projects of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will undergo soon its second stage, which includes work as the integral restora…
More than 350,000 have Visited the First Exhibition in Mexico Dedicated to Moctezuma II
MEXICO CITY.- More than 350,000 persons have visited the exhibition “Moctezuma II. Time and Destiny of a Ruler”, which opened at the Templo Mayor Museum on June 17th 2010, where 220 Prehispanic and Colonial jewels account for the life of the …
Two Pyramids at Santo Nombre Archaeological Site were Restored by INAH
PUEBLA.- Two 7 and 14 meters-high pyramidal structures that present similarities with the Teotihuacan architectural style were restored and consolidated at the Santo Nombre Archaeological Site, in Puebla, as part of the work focused on the opening of t…