More Trip Pics - Museo de Antropologia in Mexico City

Leaving the hotel I met this doll vendor but didn't want to carry a purchase around all day with me so I planned to buy from her later.  I never saw another doll vendor.

This is a monument to Diana the Huntress on Paseo de la Reforma.  It was always a favorite landmark when I was a missionary in Mexico.

This tapestry, a visual history of the early Mesoamericans, begins with the story of their ancestors arriving on sealed barges and being led by a man of God.  What looks like a large number 2 in the upper right corner is the mouth of a barge with people walking out.

Look at this photo and the one following through temple eyes.  They depict religious worship by early Mayans.

Throughout the museum we saw heavy stone boxes which had been used to bury sacred items.  Many were very ornate.

Some records were kept on codices, made of some form of textile and folded.  They weren't bound but were unfolded in order to be read.  Few codices remain because they were destroyed by conquerors in an attempt to convert the people to Christianity. 

Another way of keeping records was by stone carvings known as Stelas.  They told the record of one ruler, the people he ruled and his genealogy.

Remember this jade mask of King Petal.  Later I'll show you where he lived in Palenque.  This was found inside his sarcophagus.  The lid to that burial box weighed 15 tons.  It was pretty obvious they buried him in the box and built the temple over him.

Some of the people worshipped a descending god.  Notice the feathers on his head that signify flight.

Records have been found that were written on gold plates.

This doesn't look like archeological ruins but it was special to me because my stepdaughter says that whenever we see turtles we know that Neal is there.  It made me smile to see them in the pond at the museum. 

The famous Aztec calendar.  For 200 years it hung on the outside of the cathedral in Mexico City before they decided it should be protected from the elements, moved it to a warehouse and eventually gave it a place of honor in the museum.