Indigenous wall paintings uncovered at Mexican conventMEXICO CITY (AP) — Indigenous symbols like a feather headdress, an axe and a shield have been found under layers of lime plaster at open-air chapels in a convent just south of Mexico City, experts announced Monday.The finds suggest Spanish priests not only altered their church architecture to accommodate the large number of Indigenous converts, but also allowed masons to paint pre-Hispanic designs on the walls.The convent in the town of Tepoztlan dates back to the 1500s, when Spanish Roman Catholic priests built open-air church patios to teach and convert Indigenous groups after the 1521 conquest of Mexico.To attract them, the priests built open-air chapels: a small arched vestibule for officiating the Mass, facing a large open patio surrounded by the four walls of the church patio.Demand soars for kids' books addressing violence, traumaNobelist Annie Ernaux draws hundreds to New York bookstoreEx-Fed Chair Bernanke shares Nobel for bank failure researchCalifornia governor's wife among accusers at Weinstein trialOften found in conjunction with open chapels, the “posing chapels” held statues of saints used to mark processions and teach converts."