In the postcard is a funerary urn representing the God with hieroglyph "L", discovered at Monte Albán, a large pre-Columbian archaeological site located in Mexico and designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987. Then why I placed this postcard in the Czech Republic? Not only because from there was sent, but also because this piece is exhibited in the Náprstek Museum, one of the permanent exhibitions of National Muzeum at Bethlehem Square, which is located in the compound of former brewery and wine-making U Halanku in Prague, in Old Town. This is a museum of Asian, African and American art, founded, as a private museum, in 1862 by Vojtech Naprstek, a Czech patron of the arts, politician and national revitalist.
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