Brightly-painted Zapotec murals invoking warfare recently unearthed from tombs in southern Mexico may date back nearly 2,000 years, officials said late on Wednesday of the find that sheds new ...

Tiny magnetic particles found in the pigments of some ancient Mexican murals record the direction of Earth’s magnetic field when the paint dried, a phenomenon that could help archaeologists ...

Her years of research culminated in The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico (University of Texas Press), which proposes new answers to the paintings’ puzzles. For ...

“Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire” at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, features more than 200 objects — including ancient mural fragments, massive stone sculptures, jade carving… ...

As in other ancient Mexican societies, ... C. to 550 A.D. and was home to up to 200,000 people mostly living in multi-family stone compounds painted with colorful murals. ...

Painter Diego Rivera looms large here. His bigger-than-life murals are everywhere, from the stage of an old theater to the walls of the National Palace. The museum he constructed to house his ...

Item 1 of 5 A mural fragment depicting a jaguar is seen on the walls of La Ventilla, one of the most extensively-excavated neighborhoods in the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan, in San Juan ...

The mural was created by Mexican artist Fermín Revueltas between 1922 and 1923, when the walls of Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso became the canvases for the country’s emerging muralist movement.

Brightly-painted Zapotec murals invoking warfare recently unearthed from tombs in southern Mexico may date back nearly 2,000 years, officials said late on Wednesday of the find that sheds new ...

By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Brightly-painted Zapotec murals invoking warfare recently unearthed from tombs in southern Mexico may date back nearly 2,000 years, officials said ...