The Mask of Malinaltepec is a one-of-a-kind object, discovered by Mexican archaeologist Porfirio Aguirre on the 20th of August, 1921. 105 years later, its origins are still being debated, despite being found in Malinaltepec, Guerrero state, inside a ceramic pot covered by a funerary mound. Scholars believe it was created by the Teotihuacan culture. After that, it was carried on foot all the way to Mexico City to avoid any damage (Museo Nacional de Antropolgía ,n.d). Since th

By the end of D-Day, nearly 160,000 men crossed the channel and landed in France (Ellis et al., 2004), and the Germans had failed to follow Hitler’s orders of “throwing the Allies back into the sea” (Imperial War Museum, 2024). Despite numerous German counter attacks that day, they failed to dislodge either the landings on the beach or airborne landings of the previous night, and they never succeeded in pushing the Allies out of German-occupied France. There’s a lot of museum

At 06:30 hours, the men of the US 8th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division embarked as the first wave of the largest seaborne invasion in history (Ford & Zaloga, 2009). They were to land on one of five beaches, code-named Utah, as part of Operation Overlord. There was a total of five beaches to be landed on, named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Two American, Two British, and one Canadian beach in order to break the ferocious German Atlantic Sea Wall and begin t

On the evening of the 5th June 1944, the combined armies of the Allies prepared to undertake the largest seaborne landing in history (Beevor, 2009). Months, years of planning had been leading up to this moment. Nearly 160,000 fighting men (Ellis et al., 2004) were prepared to cross the English Channel in the early hours of the 6th to take on the formidable German Atlantic Sea Wall and prepare to liberate the continent from the iron grip of the Nazi eagle. Operation Overlord,

A Play in Three Acts The Mask Of Malinaltepec at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico (author). Cast of Characters The Mask Marina, The Reporter The Scientist The Academics Porfirio Aguirre The Curator The Security Guard Scene: National Museum of Anthropology. Time: The Opening day. Act I Scene 1 Setting The museum hasn´t opened to the public yet. Marina, The Reporter follows the security guard through some of the still-sleeping objects, and others, between yawns,

“God bless you all. This is your victory. In our long history, we have never seen a greater day than this. Everyone, man or woman, has done their best.” This is part of Winston Churchill’s speech from Whitehall on the 8th May 1945 to a gathered crowd of Londoners celebrating the downfall of the German Reich and the end of World War II in Europe (Hermiston, 2016). Whilst the war would continue until the 14th August 1945 in the east, where the twice atomic bombing of the Empire