MEXICO CITY.- More than 1,600 years ago, nearly 8,000 shells and seeds gave form to a tapestry part of the funerary attire of a high rank personage of the ancient city of Calakmul. After its discovery in 1998 and hard work restoring and reconstructing …
SALEM, MA.- Integrated by masterworks of
Maya Art,
the exhibition Fiery Pool: the Maya and the Mythic Sea was inaugurated
at
Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. The
showcase based
on new interpretations regarding the relevance of the ocean for the
Prehispanic
civilization, will be open from March 27th to July 18th 2010.
Among
artwork exhibited stands out a ceramic incense burner decorated with an
aquatic
deity from the heap of Palenque Archaeological Site Museum.
