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Chamizal National Memorial, located in El Paso, Texas, along the United States–Mexico international border, is a National Park Service site commemorating the peaceful settlement of the Chamizal boundary dispute.
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 ...
The Museum of High Altitude Archaeology (Spanisih Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña; MAAM) is an archaeology museum located in the historical center of Salta, Argentina, which conserves and exhibits collections related to the Capacocha child sacrifice ceremonies performed by the Inca in the high peaks of the Andes, mainly the Children of Llullaillaco mummies discovered in 1999 at the top ...
[2] [3] It was designed in Neo-Inca style by architect Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski. [4] The museum's predecessor, the Institute of Peruvian Art, was created in 1931 by Decree Law No. 7084 [5] as an institute annexed to the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum, to promote the study of pre-Hispanic art and popular arts. [6]
The Chamizal dispute was an international land and boundary conflict over contested land (estimates range from 600 to 1,600 acres [240–650 ha; 2.4–6.5 km 2]) along the Mexico–United States border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. [1]
The entrance to Museo de Arqueología Ganot-Peschard The building was restored in 1998 by the historian Javier Guerrero Romero and the architect Juan Águila. It was inaugurated as a museum on August 3, 1998 with the aim of preserving and disseminating the archaeological heritage of Durango and the region made up of the states of Zacatecas ...
During the raid, police found 20 million euros, or around $21.1 million, in cash hidden in the walls and ceilings of the couple's home in Alcala de Henares, a town of around 195,000 inhabitants ...
The National Museum of Peru is a national museum in Lurín District, Lima, Peru, located within the archaeological zone of Pachacamac.The museum will hold over a half million artifacts of the Pre-Columbian era and Inca Empire, ranging back to 5,000 BCE. [1]