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The Mexican goddess will be able deal temporarily in the Museum Templo Mayor
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By: Carlos Damian July 18, 2010
The Museum Templo Mayor is special for mexicans
México. – In Mexico does not exist an efficient State policy and committed with the science and the technology, we have a huge deficit in investigating and professionals of the calls hard sciences. We consider the investment in science and technology a "matter of national safety", in the one which is at stakes even the viability and development of the country. It is emphasized the need of the fact that the country form new and more professionals in these branches of the knowledge, since in several of they the current academic plant is aging and it is necessary that a new generation take the courier. We have in Mexico 170 professional astronomers, number notoriously insufficient if is taken into account that The States has more than 4 thousand, and nations as Spain some 400. Also it has been indicated that the Mexican government does not has an efficient State policy and committed with the science and the technology since at present yet, when the official speech is of support, this sector is far away from receiving the one percent from the WIP, as establishes it the legislation. In fact Mexico never it has had a gilded era of investment in science and technology, in the years 70’s, it was the decade in which was created the Consejo de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt) and in the one which have to bead a perspective of important development, but that was not maintained. In case that the country is not destined greater investment for these areas of the knowledge, the nation will be unable to contending with the most developed economies of the world, and clearly will lose competitiveness. The large universities in the heartland as: the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), between other accomplish the investigation lion's share that is made in Mexico, company in the one which the private schools neither the private initiative want to enter to it. While the entrepreneurs do not understand that they should work in a way committed with the technological development, we will follow as up until now. They were recovered the original colors in TlaltecuhtliAfter almost four restoration and conservation years of the monolith of Tlaltecuhtli, the piece is ready to be exhibited by mid that year. In this way they were recovered the original colors with those which the mexicas covered the relief of the deity of the land, explains Maria Barajas, investigating of the National Anthropology Institute and History (INAH).The great stone with the representation of the goddess of the infra-world, uncovered in October of 20006, at the bottom of the Greater Shrine, is conserved almost lock, only remains the phase of settling of the chromatic palette that has between a 50 and 60 advance percent, and is anticipated that conclude around the end of April. The INAH spread yesterday images of the restoration process of the pre-Hispanic monolith, that it will be moved in some months to the site museum that is built where it was discovered: the property Las Ajaracas.The goddess Tlaltecuhtli will be put temporarily on the foyer of the Museum of the Templo Mayor, between June and July of this year, on the context of the great exposition Moctezuma II. Maria Barajas comments the arduous work that had with the great stone of “andesita”, "was a great challenge since the colors had not been seen in such degree of conservation", not even in the monolith of Coyolxauhqui, the one which yes lost its entire polychrome original. In this labor of conservation, Maria Barajas says that the spectacular kilt of the goddess emphasizes by the pens that they are designed with a combination of blue and red, by something which is observed a mansion tonality; the snails that terminate that dress are in white, delineated with black. Agglutinate lostBarajas mentions that to adhere that range of colors to the body of the monolith, the mexicas could use an agglutinate extracted from orchids, the one which "is practically lost" in the colossal structure. With respect to the preservation, manifest Barajas that supreme will have care in the movement of the large four fragments of the stone to the site museum, in addition to generating the optimum conditions concerning the dampness, temperature and lighting. En torno a Tlaltecuhtli, el equipo de expertos que dirige el arqueólogo Leonardo López Luján realiza trabajos de excavación en el lugar donde fue descubierto el monolito, para lo cual han descendido nueve metros. Una de las hipótesis consiste en que en ese lugar se hallan los restos del emperador Ahuizótl o de altos dignatarios de la civilización mexica.In connection with Tlaltecuhtli, the experts’ equipment that directs the archeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan accomplishes quarry projects in the place where it was discovered the monolith, for something which have descended nine meters. One of the hypotheses consists in which of that place are found the remains of the emperor Ahuizotl or of high officials of the civilization mexica. (La Jornada, cultura, p. 3a, March 18, 2010)