Mexico’s mystery City of Gods comes to Paris |
By Claire Rosemberg
(AFP)
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PARÍS — Feathered serpents and sacred jaguars from ancient Mexico’s mysterious City of Gods, Teotihuacan, show in Europe for the first time at an unparalleled exhibition opening in Paris on Tuesday. |
“It’s the biggest exhibition ever on Teotihuacan”, Miguel Baez, of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), told AFP. “We in Mexico love shows from other places, this time we aim to display our great civilisation.” |
Some 450 pre-Columbian pieces, some of them monumental, some rarely or never exhibited, are on show until next January 24 in the French capital’s newest arthouse, the Quai Branly museum, under the title “Teotihuacan, City of the Gods”. |
A fearsome oversized 1,500-year-old jaguar recently discovered at the giant site opens the exhibit, also featuring new proof of rampant human sacrifice. |
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