Human-sized Maya Mask found in Mexico

[Still Waters]

In 2017, archaeologist Jacob Welch was conducting excavations at Ucanha, a site on the Yucatán Peninsula near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, when he came across an enormous Maya mask sculpted out of stucco, or lime-based plaster.

Now, reports local news outlet Novedades Yucatán, experts from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have restored the mask, which portrays an unidentified noble or deity and appears to date to the Late Preclassic period of the Maya empire (around 300 B.C. to 250 A.D.).

As INAH notes in a statement, per Google Translate, “The Ucanha mask represents a unique element in this region.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-maya-mask-restored-180976835/

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Study and Conservation Project of the Stucco Mask of Structure 92 of the Ucanha Archaeological Site

https://conservacion.inah.gob.mx/index.php/portfolio-items/estudio-y-conservacion-del-mascaron-de-estuco-de-la-estructura-92-del-sitio-arqueologico-ucanha/