For many years, Nashville’s Parthenon museum housed hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts in its collections. Many of the items were accompanied by incomplete information about what they were and where ...
It was Bonnie Seymour's first day on the job at the Nashville Parthenon. Yep, it's a replica of the real thing. She was taking a tour of the museum's collection when, behind a set of purple doors, she ...
It recontextualizes the global reach of this ancient society. Archaeologists working in Mexico City have unearthed hundreds of obsidian artifacts dating back to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the ...
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NPR’s Scott Detrow talks to assistant curator at Nashville’s Parthenon Museum about her idea to repatriate hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts back to Mexico. It was Bonnie Seymour's first day on the ...