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Thursday, 9th November 2006 (4883 views)

A new exhibition to open in March next year at the Field Museum in Chicago is to include hundreds of gold objects that were abandoned by the Conquistadors in Columbia.

The Conquistadors arrived from Spain in the Americas 500 years ago to plunder gold from the Incan empire and the Ancient Americas exhibition will show the public items they would have encountered on arrival.

Ancient Americas will be a 19,000-square-foot permanent exhibition at the museum and charts the history of humanity in the American continents over 13,000 years.

From hunter-gatherers to the ancient civilisations of the Aztecs and Incas, the exhibition will display many artefacts and information about a range of different cultures throughout the ages.

This exhibition follows research undertaken by scientists from the Field Museum and other experts who sought to investigate the daily routines of earlier civilisations and gain an insight into their culture.

Ancient Americas will be fully interactive and allow people to see what Chicago would have looked like in 11,000 BC as well as visit a pueblo home from around 1200 AD and view thousands of artefacts from a variety of sources.

 

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