INAH Office

This is a detail from a building now used as the offices of INAH, Mexico's National University of Anthropology and History. It is here that INAH's Chichen Itza archeaologists catalogue and piece together pottery chards and other materials found ...

This censer, or incense burner is in the Molded Chenmul style, and corresponds to the post-classic period (1200-1500 C.E.). It is a molded mud vessel displaying a richly decorated individual. The upper posterior section of this poly-chromed ...

Important group of tools made of stone such as silex or pedernal. We see arrowheads, used for war and for hunting. The lower rows show knives used for a variety of purposes. The exemplars we see here are the basic tools and materials used by the ...

Pottery vessels and shards found at Chichen Itza. Part of what the archaeological team does is track, catalog, and store the millions of often pebble-sized pottery fragments found on the sites. They are often able to piece together larger ...

Stone heads and figures displayed on shelves at the INAH offices. Pottery chards are catalogued and stored in marked boxes; some are visible on the table tops where they are studied and sorted. (Image Credit: David Williamson, Ideum)

This corner stone formed part of a relief that framed the upper decorative elements in the Temple of the Jaguars. This relief shows the profile of a feathered serpent’s head, which is crowned with feathers and displays an open mouth with a ...