Mexico, INAH, august 03, 2009. Closed to visit since 2004 to guarantee its good conservation state, Pakal’s Tomb, in Palenque Archaeological Zone, Chiapas, can be visited virtually through Internet since August 2009. Access to the funerary chamber of Maya ruler K’inich Janaab Pakal was habilitated by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at […]
artdaily.org, Mexico, july 07, 2009. More than 300 caves and cenotes have been registered by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at the Puuc Region in Yucatan, which are part of more than 2000 existing in the area; archaeological vestiges of ritual and domestic activities have been found inside them. The project Caves: […]
INAH, may 28, 2009. An unarticulated human body sculpture and 6 Maya stone carved masks covered with green and blue stucco were found in an offering during the Moral-Reforma archaeological site exploration, In the Tabasco municipality of Balancan. Items could be more than 1,500 years old and would confirm that the Maya settlement was in […]
INAH, may, 2009. A long and intense drought and famine registered more than a millennium ago in Uxmal region, Yucatan, favored the veneration of Chaac, the rain deity, as well as Tlaloc, the Aztec equivalent. Several sculptural representations of the Mexica god were found at the Maya city. Jose Huchim Herrera, Uxmal Archaeological Zone and […]
ScienceDaily, April 20, 2009. The ancient Maya civilisation used a rare type of clay called “palygorskite” to produce Maya blue. Combining structural, morphological and geochemical methods, Spanish researchers have defined the features of palygorskite clay on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. These findings will make it possible to ascertain the origin of the materials used […]
USA, University of Pennsylvania Almanac, April 07, 2009. A world-renowned collection of ancient Maya painted pottery, excavated by the University of Pennsylvania Museum nearly a century ago and reinterpreted in light of recent research in the field, provides the centerpiece for Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya, a new exhibition now at […]
INAH, April 01, 2009. To present, near 70% of Maya speakers are adults, and the language presents transmission problems, because teenagers and children are loosing interest in learning it. If the tendency continues, this ancestral language could disappear in less than 100 years.
INAH, Uxmal, Yucatan, March 30, 2009. Removal of the old lighting system installed more than 30 years ago at Uxmal Archaeological Zone in Yucatan, has allowed resolving humidity issues that several Prehispanic monuments presented, representing collapse danger. Actions taken guarantee better preservation state of the buildings.
INAH, Palenque, Chiapas, March 25, 2009. The 17th Temple at the Palenque Archaeological Zone, in Chiapas was opened to public after guaranteeing visitor’s safety. After a year of maintenance work, this monument reincorporates to the circuit near Crosses Group, where visitors’ affluence concentrates. In 2008, the direction of the National Institute of Anthropology and History […]
El Popol Vuh o Pop Wuj (Libro del Común o Libro del Consejo) Pop: estera o petate, símbolo de autoridad real Vuh: libro “Sin Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Rafael Landívar, Antonio José de Irisarri, José Batres Montúfar, José Milla; sin Enrique Gómez Carrillo, sin Miguel Ángel Asturias, sin la obra de los guatemaltecos indios, antes […]
