THIS WAS US
ESTO ÉRAMOS NOSOTROSIntroduction by the curator
The artifacts exhibited here have been adventurously unearthed over the course of the last 25 years across 10 major sites in various regions that must have once been inhabitable.
Some of the artifacts show a remarkable level of complexity, suggesting that — as impossible as it might seem today — an advanced civilization might have once existed and even thrived in these inhospitable lands.
We will probably never know what the real use of these objects was, even though hypotheses — sometimes conflicting — have been made. Many of them appear to be sacred or votive in nature, which would explain the high level of craftsmanship that could only be reserved for the relationship with the spiritual realm.
Whatever it was, it didn't survive.
