A from high-resolution images, the three iconic monoliths Mexican culture, Coyolxauhqui Tlaltecuhtli and Piedra del Sol, as can be appreciated through Internet in an interactive site created by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). This allows us to observe in detail the three large sculptures and whose antiquity is about 550 years.
site is called History in stone. Three monoliths Mexica put online yesterday in the email address www.inah.gob.mx / historiaenpiedra , where for the first time the public can see every detail of the monoliths of the ancient Tenochtitlan, have been discovered so far.
Through high-resolution photographs, video and animation, the user can view information endorsed by INAH specialists who are dedicated to research and restoration of stone monoliths.
This represents the second technological tool, posted by INAH, to disseminate, via the Web, wealth Mexico's cultural world. Recently
Internet climbed the wall interactive Retablo de la Independencia, the Mexican painter Juan O'Gorman, available on the website www.mnh.inah.gob.mx / Mur.html .
'History in stone ... consists of more than 500 thousand photographs of the three sculptures Tenochca, which were taken with different approaches or 'zoom' to the three sculptures, which can appreciate in detail each item recorded in the sculptures.
In this regard, the Explore module can see features such as color and texture of each monolith, which is possible due to the high resolution and quality photographic approaches, which were arranged one above another, by way of layers to achieve depth display.
also includes the interactive overhead image of each piece, ie, a perspective from the front, which is difficult to take in the Museo del Templo Mayor, enclosure protects Coyolxauhqui sculptures and Tlaltecuhtli, presented to the public so horizontal. La Piedra del Sol is on display at the National Museum of Anthropology.
The Web site shows the three parts carousel way, when you choose any of them displays a menu with general information: the year in which it was created, its dimensions, its findings and studies that have been made to each of them.
The interactive includes a button labeled 'Description', which displays information endorsed by researchers, who over 18 videos describe the importance of each piece and studies about them.
specialists involved in this project are the archaeologists Bertina Olmedo Vera, curator of the Mexica Hall National Museum of Anthropology and Fernando Carrizosa Monfort, Head of the Curatorial Department of the Museo del Templo Mayor. As
Ximena Chávez Balderas, a member of Templo Mayor Project, as well as restaurateur Maria Barajas Rocha, head of the Department of Restoration of premises.
In the apparatus dedicated to Tlaltecuhtli monolith created between 1502-1521, the user can know details of the symbolism that was for the Aztecs this deity of the land as well as information concerning the offering that was found by archaeologists and conservation processes, including highlights of its polychromy.
respect to the Sun Stone, whose antiquity is estimated dates from 1521, shows a detailed investigation of the iconography, since it is a monolith with a lot of small reliefs that reflect the fundamental concepts of worldview mexica.Finalmente, the image of the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui imposing, carved between 1469-1481, is accompanied by an explanation of his finding, his mythology, the recovery of their color, symbolism and keeping their relationship with other female deities.
El Universal
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