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Image Description: Although popularly known as La Reina de Uxmal (The Queen of Uxmal), this sculpture actually represents a realistic head of a young male with elaborate facial decoration emerging from the jaws of a serpent. The architectural element originally formed part of the facade of a substructure that was covered by the west stairway of the Pyramid of the Magician.
Gran Museo del Mundo Maya (Mayan World Museum of Mérida) opened in 2021. The contemporary building, designed by by Grupo 4A Arquitectos, is in the form a ceiba, a sacred tree believed by the Maya to connect the living with the underworld and heavens above. The museum's permanent galleries house
