INAH corrects the Calakmul murals story

[mike 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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