Popular Art Museum to Present New Collection of Indigenous Treasures
The collection donated to the MAP is composed most of huipils and other textiles, but also includes several early Toltec and Aztec artifacts
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Sale of Mexican Artifact Suspended in Austria
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The auction of a Pre-Columbian archaeological artifact, which was slated to go on the block at Vienna’s Zacke Gallery on Friday, March 11, was suspended this week thanks to the intervention of the Mexican government, the Austrian Embassy in Mexico announced on Thursday, March 10. The item, a carved stone ballgame yoke presumably from
Read moreItaly Cancels Auction of Mexican Artifacts
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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