'Extremely Rare' Jade Mask Found in Maya King's Tomb From 1,700 Years Ago tri-cityherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tri-cityherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Our ancestors were incredibly intelligent, and many discoveries over the years have turned up evidence of what they studied and observed. One subject that
New study announces discovery of a glyph on mural fragments found in Guatemala. They believe this is the earliest known use of the Maya calendar to have been unearthed to date.
Los peripatéticos en la Biósfera Maya del Petén (segunda entrega) elperiodico.com.gt - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elperiodico.com.gt Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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To the Maya people living in the city of Xultun in Guatemala’s Petén rain forest, a sweat bath was a sacred place symbolizing the circular nature of time and the cycle of birth and death. In excavations of Xultun’s sweat bath over the past decade, archaeologist Mary Clarke of Boston University has found that the building is painted with images of a goddess who has the features of toads and iguanas. A person entering and leaving the sweat bath, Clarke says, would have metaphorically passed through the body of the goddess in an act of death and rebirth. Radiocarbon dates establish that the Xultun sweat bath was first used from A.D. 562 to 651. It was then ceremonially buried. A combination of radiocarbon and ceramic typology dating revealed that the sweat bath was later uncovered and reused from A.D. 850 to 971, when Xultun was beginning to decline. Clarke has unearthed a large cache of offerings to the goddess, including toad and iguana carcasses, the remai