According to the 𝙋𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙡 𝙑𝙪𝙝, the Maya creation story, the gods tried three times to make human beings. Figures of mud dissolved in the rain. Figures of wood had no heart. Only when the gods ground white and yellow maize into meal did people finally come to life. Now that story is easy to picture at the 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙢 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙖. Ivanna Hernández (Mexico) and Navarro Arantza (Peru), international students at the School of Chinese as a Second Language, visited the special exhibition [𝙈𝙖𝙞𝙯𝙚, 𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙙, 𝙅𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙧—𝘼 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨]. Guided by PKU Assoc. Prof. Fan Ye of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, they stepped into the world of a civilization that flourished thousands of miles away. 🌽 Special feature by PKU Office of Global Communications: a three-part AI-powered mini-series, 𝙐𝙣𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙮𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. 𝙀𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝟭 𝙈𝙖𝙞𝙯𝙚 starts here. #AI_PKU# #MaizeGoldJaguar#