Why is it so important for national identity?
Because without this vision, neither the INAH, nor the anthropology museums, nor the modern narrative of “pride in our roots” would exist today.
And this didn’t come from Don Benito Juárez (he couldn’t have cared less about the country, its people, or its heritage); rather, it was all the initiative of that much-reviled “foreign invader” emperor.
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-Uncle Hades 👑🔱
Sources:
-Official Gazette of the Mexican Empire
Volume I, 1865.
-Cited in: Escalante Gonzalbo, Pablo. “Archaeological Heritage and Its Legislation in Mexico” (El patrimonio arqueológico y su legislación en México), UNAM, Institute for Historical Research, 2002.
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