The Bonampak Documentation Project was established following a pilot study published by National Geographic Magazine in February 1995 in which digital images of several sections of the Bonampak murals were restored using line visible in infrared photographs. The goal of the full-scale project is to document, reconstruct and study the ancient murals.

Fieldwork

With the permission and logistical assistance of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico, the Bonampak Documentation Project made a complete set of color and infrared images of the paintings in 1996. Image processing is currently underway, with the goal of creating an accurate and accessible digital reconstruction that will convey a sense of the architectural setting of the paintings.

Project Director

Mary Miller
Department of the History of Art
Yale University

Project Team

Beatriz de la Fuente
Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
 
Stephen Houston
Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University
 
Karl Taube
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

Contacting
the BDP

bonampak@pantheon.yale.edu

© Bonampak Documentation Project
pages by R.Huff
rev. July 1998

Support

Reconstruction and study of the murals is supported by the Getty Grant. In addition, the National Geographic Society's Committee on Research and Exploration made it possible to conduct fieldwork at the site, while the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) supported both fieldwork and subsequent digitization and mosaicing of images.