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Natural History Museum Attractions In Central Mexico and Gulf Coast

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Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area in North America. It extends from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within this region pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is one of six areas in the world where ancient civilization arose independently, and the second in the Americas along with Norte Chico in present-day northern coastal Peru. As a cultural area, Mesoamerica is defined by a mosaic of cultural traits developed and shared by its indigenous cultures. Beginning as early as...
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Natural History Museum Attractions In Central Mexico and Gulf Coast

  • 3. Museo de Historia Natural Mexico City
    The National Museum of Anthropology is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun and the Aztec Xochipilli statue. The museum is managed by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia , or INAH. Assessments of the museum vary, with one considering it a national treasure and a symbol of identity. The museum is the synthesis of an ideological, scientific, and political feat. Octavio Paz criticized the museum's making the Mexica hall central, saying the exaltation and glorification of Mexico-Te...
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