Piece of the month
Some years ago, the project’s excavations discovered an adobe fragment with a red strip in a pit at the Plaza North of the Sun Pyramid Complex (see Results 2018-2019, located in Front F’s second “window”). The team decided to extract it as a block and took it to the laboratory.
Afterwards, an arduous process of consolidation and conservation was undertaken. Once a portion of the block was turned over, we were surprised to see it was painted with a design. It depicts two yellow feathered serpents with multicolored bellies (green, red, and black). Furthermore, it is remarkable that this is a very ancient piece, dating from around 250 AD.
This piece is exhibited at Teotihuacan Archaeological Park’s Site Museum. Come and visit! Here we share a few pictures of its inauguration. We thank all the attendees, the team in charge of the mural’s intervention, and the people who made this exhibition possible, especially Jesús Torres from the Department of Museums and Educational Communication at the Archaeological Site of Teotihuacan, and Rogelio Rivero Chong, Director of the Archaeological Site of Teotihuacan.
