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The tomb of a Mayan King was discovered by Texas archaeologists, Belize, Belize, the first time researchers in the ancient city found a definite rest of a ruler.
Caracol, 900 BC. Caracol Archaeological Projectand for centuries for centuries until the collapse of Mayan civilization in 800-900. At the summit, the city had more than 100,000 people. Today is the largest Mayan archeological space in Belize, The project said.
Archaeologists work for more than 40 years on the site. Husband and wife team Arlen and Diane ChaseThe University of Houston has been drilled there for decades. The couple manages Caracol Archaeological Project. During the latest expedition, Caracol found a first-defined grave during the latest expedition with the Institute of Archeology. The tomb was first in the 1993 researchers in the 1993 burial room.
Caracol Archaeological Project / Houston University
Te K’AB Chaak, Caracol was the first ruler and the founder of the University of Houston Royal Dul said on a news broadcast. Took power in the 331st announcement.
Chaseys saw that in 350 the sanctuary of a royal family. Next to the ruler, 11 pottery vessels, jadeite death mask and jewelry, carving bone pipes and other interiklates. The death mask was found in pieces with them.
Caracol Archaeological Project / Houston University
Pieces of pottery are carved. Someone showed a scene to a god that took offers. Others showed closed prisoners.
Chases, Te K’ab Çaak’ın was able to determine that he was “advanced age”. There were no remaining teeth and was 5 feet, 7 inches long during his death.
“This is one of our most important findings,” Diane Chase said Told Houston University. “We found the first person in the Dula that in terms of Caracol history, we could recognize it as a ruler, and this, this, we found a large number of tombs that are a ruler and a ruler and beyond.”
Caracol Archaeological Project / Houston University
This is the third tomb found in Caracol, with a tomb, jewelry, shells and pottery found in 2009, with a tomb, which was retrieved in 2009. Another experience site was the remains of a few other herself in connection with the remains of three people, two large knives and central Mexico. There was an ancient yeast on the name 350 began to contact Teotihuacan’s Central Mexican city. Archaeologists believe that the creamy people probably can serve as an ambassador of Teotihuacan embracing Mexican ritual experiences.
Archaeologists have been interested in how the Archaeologists have affected Teotihuacan Mayan SocietyDiane Chase said in the newspaper. The city of Mexico was a greater presence in Caracol in 378, but was a generation of three biases, and before, Early Maya’s previously reinforced “fully strengthened in mesoamerican-wide contacts.
Caracol Archaeological Project / Houston University
“Yeast carved stone monuments, hieroglyphs, iconographic and archeological information show that in 378 are the widespread Pan-mesoamerican connections.” Caracol archaeological information, the situation is further discussed indicates that it becomes difficult. “
Te K’Ab ÇaAK’s tomb will continue. Archaeologists work to reconstruct the mask of the mask of the Jadeite and exercise DNA and isotope analysis in the skeletal material. More information will be presented in an academic conference on Houston University in August in August.