MEXICO CITY, Sept 30 — A museum exhibit displaying Aztec ritual offerings dug up from underneath downtown Mexico City opened on Friday in a first-ever showcase that offers new...
MEXICO CITY, Sept 30 — A museum exhibit displaying Aztec ritual offerings dug up from underneath downtown Mexico City opened on Friday in a first-ever showcase that offers new insight into pre-Hispanic art and religious practices.
Most of the pieces on display were excavated from the ruins of the Aztecs’ holiest shrine, now adjacent to the museum. Many were found in sealed stone boxes, buried over five centuries ago. Most wooden artefacts quickly decompose and can only withstand the test of the time with constant temperature and moisture levels, Barajas said.
Recently excavated Aztec ritual offerings carved from wood are pictured, including chest plates, sceptres and ear flares, part of the exhibition ‘Insignia of the Gods, the wood in the Templo Mayor,’ at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City September 27, 2023. — Reuters pic “This is a god that’s in a state of partial decomposition, partially fleshless, and so he carries body parts here and there,” she said.
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