MEXICO CITY (AP).- A small, remote-controlled camera lowered into an early Mayan tomb in southern Mexico has revealed an apparently intact funeral chamber with offerings and red-painted wall murals, researchers said Thursday. Footage of the approximate…
Archaeologists Lower Small, Remote-Controlled Camera Into Early Mayan Tomb
MEXICO CITY (AP).- A small, remote-controlled camera lowered into an early Mayan tomb in southern Mexico has revealed an apparently intact funeral chamber with offerings and red-painted wall murals, researchers said Thursday. Footage of the approximate…
Regional Unrest Inspires Artists at Dubai’s Four-Day Contemporary Art Show
DUBAI (REUTERS).- Stirring canvasses inspired by the unrest sweeping the Arab world feature in a four-day contemporary art show, Art Dubai, running this week through Saturday. Most of the artists from Artspace Gallery in the Dubai International Financi…
El Tajin Columns to Be Exhibited for the First Time at National Museum of Anthropology
MEXICO CITY.- Shafts of the pilasters at the Building of the Columns, where one of the most enigmatic moments of El Tajin history is carved in bas-relief, will gather for the first time at the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) in the great exhibiti…
El Tajin Columns to Be Exhibited for the First Time at National Museum of Anthropology
MEXICO CITY.- Shafts of the pilasters at the Building of the Columns, where one of the most enigmatic moments of El Tajin history is carved in bas-relief, will gather for the first time at the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) in the great exhibiti…
Three Images of Alexander the Great in Sculpture and Jewelery in Bonhams Antiques Sales
LONDON.- Bonhams next sale of Antiquities on April 13th includes three powerful images of Alexander the Great – a 2000-year-old ring bearing his image and two stunning sculpted heads from the same era. Madeleine Perridge, Head of Antiquities at Bonhams…
Three Images of Alexander the Great in Sculpture and Jewelery in Bonhams Antiques Sales
LONDON.- Bonhams next sale of Antiquities on April 13th includes three powerful images of Alexander the Great – a 2000-year-old ring bearing his image and two stunning sculpted heads from the same era. Madeleine Perridge, Head of Antiquities at Bonhams…
An Unknown Son of Pakal II of Palenque has Been Identified by Mexican Archaeologists
MEXICO CITY.- Parting from the reintegration of two fragments from the Northern Tableau of the Temple of the Sun Sanctuary, in Palenque, a new lecture of the glyphic text was conducted in which the name of another son of Pakal II, unknown until now, ma…
An Unknown Son of Pakal II of Palenque has Been Identified by Mexican Archaeologists
MEXICO CITY.- Parting from the reintegration of two fragments from the Northern Tableau of the Temple of the Sun Sanctuary, in Palenque, a new lecture of the glyphic text was conducted in which the name of another son of Pakal II, unknown until now, ma…
Mexican Archaeologists Permanently Place Stone Slab of Maya Ruler Pakal on Sarcophagus
MEXICO CITY.- More than 1,300 years after an entourage accompanied the mortal remains of the Maya ruler K’inich Janaab’ Pakal into the crypt at Temple of the Inscriptions, in the ancient city of Palenque, experts from the National Institute o…