[Aztlan] INAH corrects the Calakmul murals story

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

INAH has stated that the murals at Calakmul discovery reported in the last few days have been known since 2004 and that INAH has been studying the murals for 5 years. The INAH work on the murals has been written about in: Veronica A. Vazquez article Pintura Mural y Arquitectura como Medios de Transmision Ideologica en el Clasico Temprano: la Acropolis de Chik Naab de la Antigua Calakmul (Mural Painting and Architecture as Ideological Transmission Media in the Early Classic: Chik Naab Acropolis of Ancient Calakmul) published by the Campeche Autonomous University in 2006. And in the Mexican magazine Arqueologia Mexicana published in its 75th volume corresponding to September-October 2005, named Ultimos Descubrimientos Mayas en Campeche (New Maya Findings at Campeche), an article written by Carrasco Vargas and Marines Colon regarding the ancient city.  The INAH project involving the murals is called the Calakmul Archaeological Project inlcludes archaeology, structural and ceramic analysis and epigraphy.  The largest mural has already undergone restoration procedures for humidity and temperature control. INAH has worked with the University of Florence to make sure the murals are exactly the same now as they were 5 years ago.

(My note; A close reading of the report from yesterday does not claim the discovery is a new one. It is a descriptive article about the murals and not their discovery. The writers of the article should have added the fact that these murals were uncovered my INAH 5 years ago.)

INAH has their correction here;
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemid=150

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