National museum of Anthropology Mexico city great museums of the world

In 153 photographs all newly. taken and all in full color the marvels of the national museum of anthropology / mexico city.
The ancient roots of mexican civilizationas
seen in its art and artifacts are on view in the pages of this book, just as they are in the national museum of anthropology itself. Here the reader will encounter the treasures of pre hispanic mexico, as on a tour, with the museum’s director as guide through its splendors.
They range from the most ancient traces of primitive civilizations to the most polished examples of sixteenth century aztec culture from the Pre classical small figures and pottery of the twelfth century B.C., and the urns, frescoes and colossal statues of the classical period, to the ceremonial dishes, ornaments and giant votive tablets of the post classical period, when the spanish conquistadors first set foot in the new world of mexico.