Mexico City to replace Columbus statue with pre-Hispanic sculpture of woman

The statue is a replica of a mysterious carving of an Indigenous figure unearthed in January known as the Young Woman of Amajac

A replica of a mysterious pre-Hispanic sculpture of an Indigenous woman has been chosen to replace a statue of Christopher Columbus on Mexico City's most prominent boulevard.

The statue was unearthed in January in the Huasteca region, near Mexico's Gulf coast. It's known as the Young Woman of Amajac, after the village where she was found buried in a field. But nobody really knows who the stone sculpture was supposed to depict.