ON NOVEMBER 20, 2021, the artist Gala Porras-Kim wrote a letter to Jane Pickering, director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: “I am interested in objects suspended from their original function or purpose by being stored and displayed in institutions solely as historical objects,” she began. This could easily describe any number of the millions of objects held by the museum, but Porras-Kim’s focus was on the Peabody’s collection of thousands of artifacts found in a major sinkhole: the Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The Maya peoples understood
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Mexico is full of tales of foreigners who visit and then become writers and artists, but few of them are under the age of 12.
Arden Pala, an 11-year-old sixth-grader from San Diego, has made many trips to Mexico with his family: Mexico City, Cabo San Lucas and, most recently, Cancún. He’s also the author of a new children’s book about exploring Mexico in a unique form of transportation: a flying car.
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The Adventures of Noah’s Flying Car in Mexico, young Noah and two of his friends, Scotty and Kaden, go on a trip to Mexico to complete a class assignment. Their red flying car allows them to travel across the country with the ultimate goal of seeing the monarch butterfly migration in the World Heritage Site forests 100 miles northwest of Mexico City.
Chichén Itzá to open new site, new experience in 2022 Chichén Viejo is set deep in the jungle and vegetation will be left in its natural state
Published on Monday, February 1, 2021
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A new section of the Chichén Iztá archaeological site will open to the public in 2022, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has announced.
Called Chichén Viejo, or Old Chichén, the new section is set deep in jungle in an area 900 meters south of El Castillo, the towering pyramid that is the largest structure of the ancient Mayan city, located about 40 kilometers west of Valladolid, Yucatán.