Image Description: La Casa Blanca de Lectura (The White House of Reading)
This is the facade of the San Xok Nah in Ek Balam, the main hall of the palace built in AD 797 to 802 by Ukit Kan Le'k Tok' for his personal use. The iconography of this zoomorphic facade transmits a symbolic message that alludes to the three levels of the Maya universe, represented by celestial, terrestrial, and aquatic motifs; in the center, the enthroned ruler presides over the scene surrounded by members of his court. The inner precinct must have been the setting of private ceremonies, meetings of wise men, session with scribes, and the death of its owner. It houses his mortal remains, buried with a splendid offering of ceramic vessels and ornaments.
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 undaerworld and heavens above. The museum's permanent galleries house a collection of more than 1100 remarkably well-preserved ancient Mayan
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Image Description: Palacio Cantón, at Paseo de Montejo and Calle 43, was built in 1911 as a residence for General Francisco Canton, the governor of the state of Yucatán. It stayed in the family for a few years before being sold to the government where it functioned as a school, and then the official residence of the state governors before El Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) turned it into Museo de Antropología e Historia in 1966. Designed by Italian architect Enrico Deserti and engineer Manuel Canton Ramos, who oversaw Casas Gemelas, the mansion turned-museum is a mix of architectural styles: French Baroque, European neoclassical, and classical.
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Ek Balam Stela Maya Archaeology Yucatan Mexico Ruins
Carved stone stela monument at the ancient Maya archaeological site of Ek Balam, Yucatan, Mexico
