MEXICO CITY, Oct 13 (Reuters) - President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday pressed Austria to loan Mexico a bejeweled feather headdress considered one of the country's most important ...
It is one of the star attractions of Vienna's Weltmuseum, a resplendent ancient Aztec headdress of iridescent blue-green feathers almost two metres (six feet) wide with a centrepiece sporting hundreds ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Granting the wish of Mexico's president to have a famous Aztec-era headdress sent from Europe to Mexico for an exhibition would seriously damage the fragile pre-Hispanic ...
MEXICO CITY – Mexicans voiced new hope Wednesday that they will finally convince Austria to return a nearly five-century-old feather headdress which may have belonged to Aztec emperor Montezuma, which ...
Over the course of January, two Mexican activists aided by local youth surreptitiously brought around 50 of their own audio guides into the Weltmuseum in Vienna — completely unbeknownst to the museum.
Made up of hundreds of long quetzal feathers and over a thousand small gold plates, this 16th century Aztec headdress is the only one of its kind to have survived. Of late, however, its inclusion in ...