By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s El Carmen Museum, which for years has presented altars of the Virgin Mary’s sorrows during the Holy Week of Easter, but which has been closed for the last two years due to the covid-19 contingency, will reopen with a limited seasonal display to the public on Thursday, April 7. The exhibition, “The
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) helped Guatemala in the exploration of the submerged Maya city in Lake Atitlán. The underwater site, which sank mysteriously into the lake hundreds of years ago, includes a complex of temples, plazas, houses and stelae, which had never before been seen by modern scientists. The joint
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As covid-19 sanitary measures continue to ease nationwide, Mexico is due to open a total of 137 archeological sites for equinox observances this year, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced Saturday, March 12. While still requiring masks and other sanitary precautions, the INAH said in a press release that it is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The archeological remains of a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath site, were discovered this week in Juliantla, Guerrero, by Mexican archeologist Diego Martínez Serrano, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported Wednesday, Sept. 22. The remains of the 16th century bath site, deemed in good condition, were discovered at Juliantla, a town
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An auction of 17 alleged pre-Columbian Mexican artifacts was cancelled just hours before it was slated to be held on Thursday, Sept. 16, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced Sunday, Sept. 19. The auction, which had been organized by the internet sales site Casa Bertolami Fine Arts in Rome was halted
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Opponents and critics launched a petition on Sunday, Sept. 12, demanding that the government of Mexico City restore the statue of Christopher Columbus on Paseo de la Reforma, the capital’s main avenue. “We Mexicans, and particularly the inhabitants of the capital of the country, are outraged by the withdrawal of our historical heritage on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Teotihuacán, the center of Mexico’s most famous pre-Hispanic pyramids, could lose its status as a UNESCO World Heritage site, according to the president of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (Icomos). Current construction work being conducted in the Teotihuacán archaeological zone with heavy machinery for the new Santa Lucía airport — one of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The El Carmen Museum (Museo de El Carmen) in the south of Mexico City reopened to the public on Saturday, May 22, under strict covid-19 safety protocols. The museum is housed in an old Catholic monetary built by Fray Andrés de San Miguel, an illustrious leader of the Carmelite order and heir to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s renowned Tulum archeological site in the Yucatan Peninsula state of Quintana Roo is set to reopen to the public as of Wednesday, May 12, the government’s Culture Secretariat announced Tuesday, May 11, through its subsidiary National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The site, the only Maya temple to be built along the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Museum of History and Chapultepec Castle will reopen to the public starting on Tuesday, May 11. In order to observe strict covid-19 protocols, a maximum capacity of 1,800 visitors will be allowed each day, according to a press release sent out by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) on Saturday,
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