Maya, Aztec and Teotihuacan arrives on the Tokyo National Museum

The exhibition Ancient Mexico: Maya, Aztec and Teotihuacan, what prepares to thieve new lookswas inaugurated the day past on the National Museum of Tokyo, the oldest in Japan, said the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

The head of the National Coordination of Museums and Exhibitions, Juan Manuel Garibay López, explained that the museum tour touches on thematic axes: Teotihuacan, city of gods; Mayans, the upward thrust and fall of metropolis-states, and Aztecs, the high-quality temple of Tenochtitlan, with the purpose also of looking on the migratory phenomenon in pre-Hispanic instances.

The exhibition, he delivered, changed into conceived to transmit to the Japanese humans and the Asian public the intensity and attraction of the ancient civilizations of Mexico, especially those that settled in cities including Teotihuacan, in the modern-day kingdom of Mexico; Palenque, in Chiapas, and Tenochtitlan, in the territory of what's now Mexico City.

The curatorship was carried out through archaeologist Saburo Sugiyama, research professor on the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, within the United States, in collaboration with the director of the Templo Mayor Project (Mexico), archaeologist Leonardo López Luján , and Takeshi Inomata, a research professor at Arizona State University.

The exhibition seeks to carry the extremely good pleasant of the inventive, technological and cognitive experience of every of these cities with 139 archaeological pieces and four reproductions,  of them of unique objects, one ethnographic and one facsimile of the Mendoza Codex.

Among the worthwhile original works present are the trousseau of the Red Queen of Palenque and 8 gold objects, recovered inside the maximum latest archaeological salvage seasons of the Templo Mayor Project.

Other portions that can be appreciated are the Eagle Warrior and a Tláloc pot, from the Templo Mayor Museum; the Disk of Death, from the National Museum of Anthropology, and an anthropomorphic sculpture positioned within the Pyramid of the Moon, from the collection of the archaeological zone of Teotihuacan.

Ancient Mexico: Maya, Aztec and Teotihuacan It became prepared by the Ministry of Culture through INAH and the Nippon Hoso Kyokai. After Tokyo, it is able to be popular at the Kyushu National Museum, on the give up of the year, and at the Osaka National Museum of Art, in 2024. In the Japanese capital, it closes on September 3, 2023.