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ART: The Mysterious City of Pyramids

Mask from Malinaltepec, 330-550 AD INAH, Mexico. Foto: Martirene Alcántara

Museum Rietberg, February 21 – May 30, 2010

This content was published on February 18, 2010 - 14:06

With some 450 artefacts from Teotihuacan, once the largest city in Pre-Columbian America, the exhibition presents colourful Mexican murals, precious clay vessels, stone sculptures, figures cut from obsidian and beautiful jewellery. Also on display, spectacular finds including the magnificent sacrificial offerings from the Sun and Moon Pyramids and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.

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