Laurette Séjourné (1911-25 May 2003) was an archaeologist and anthropologist most original of the twentieth century. archaeologist and ethnologist. Born in Italy, an Italian family later in life became a naturalized Mexican citizen. She married Victor Serge, author of the novel "The Tulanev case" and other revolutionary writings.He influenced surrealist authors who lived in Mexico, as Leonora Carrinton ("The Magical World of the Maya"), Benjamin Peret (Air Mexicain) and Wolfgang Paalen, who prepared a number "Amerindian" from his magazine DYN.His central thesis was based on the pre-Columbian past, we looked at the pyramids and in the codices, was still alive and present in modern indigenous peoples. These reminiscences were visible in the villages of Oaxaca, for example, she studied. His studies of symbolic writing Columbian monuments also highlights some signs like "Ollin" or movement and the "Quinquance" (or Cross of Quetzalcoatl), which presents a geometric, above the European flat spatial dimension.During the 50s he worked for the INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History), digging in Teotihuacan. He published several books on cosmology and religion Nahuatl, including Boiling Water: Thought and Religion in Ancient Mexico.His main work was on the figure of Quetzalcoatl. He further argued that Teotihuacan was the legendary Tollan, contradicting the official version of Mexican archeology, which places it in Tula even today