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Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty ImagesDuring Prohibition, enforcing the nation’s liquor ban was a game of cat and mouse. Smugglers, speakeasies, and ...
"Maya" is a modern term used to refer collectively to the various peoples that inhabited this area, as Maya peoples have not had a sense of a common ethnic identity or political unity for the vast majority of their history. [2]
The Mexican government will welcome back 20 cultural artifacts that date to the country's storied ancient past, all found in the United States including a Mayan vase over 1,000 years old and ...
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is an American auction house based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.Founded in 1982, sold to Sotheby's in 1997 and reopened in 2003, the company engages in auctions ranging from contemporary paintings and fine jewelry to French furniture and rare books and manuscripts.
Copan, 'Reviewing Stand' with simian musicians Labna, Palace, vaulted passage. The layout of the Maya towns and cities, and more particularly of the ceremonial centers where the royal families and courtiers resided, is characterized by the rhythm of immense horizontal stucco floors of plazas often located at various levels, connected by broad and often steep stairs, and surmounted by temple ...
Stelae have become threatened in modern times by plundering for sale on the international art market. [160] Many stelae are found in remote areas and their size and weight prevents them from being removed intact. Various methods are used to cut or break a stela for easier transport, including power saws, chisels, acid and heat.
Kingsborough, Edward; King, Viscount (1830–1848).Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the royal libraries of Paris, Berlin and Dresden, in the Imperial library of Vienna, in the Vatican library; in the Borgian museum at Rome; in the library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian library at Oxford.
The inside walls maintain neutral colors to keep focus on the artifacts. The Popol Vuh Museum is located on the campus of Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Zone 10 of Guatemala City. It is open Monday through Friday from nine to five, Saturday from nine to one and is closed on Sunday.