{"id":12663,"date":"2011-06-30T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=12663"},"modified":"2011-06-30T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T09:29:44","slug":"archeology-discovery-ancient-mayan-burial-site-found-12663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/archeology-discovery-ancient-mayan-burial-site-found-12663\/","title":{"rendered":"Archeology Discovery : Ancient Mayan Burial Site Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12664\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12664\" title=\"mexico_archeology_sites_mayan_civilization_nationalturk_008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mexico_archeology_sites_mayan_civilization_nationalturk_008.jpg\" alt=\"Mexico Archeology : Mayan Civilization Discovery\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexico Archeology : Site of Mayan Civilization Discovered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Mexico&#8217;s National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) reported the discovery of a cemetery more than 1,000 years old in Comalcalco, Tabasco, possibly of the Mayan civilization.<\/h1>\n<p>Archeology field coordinator Ricardo Armijo said the findings consisted of 116 bodies, 66 of them in urns and 50 surrounding these.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists also found animal-shaped clay whistles and rattles, richly attired human figures, and dozens of knives, blades and other elements linked to funeral ceremonies of the Mayan Civilization.<\/p>\n<h2>Mexico Archeology : Mayan\u00a0Civilization Discovery shows findings from\u00a0Terminal Classic Era<\/h2>\n<p>The experts also recovered the largest samples of skeletons ever seen in Mayan territory, leading them to believe it may be a pre-Hispanic Mayan burial ground.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of the objects found at the discovery site indicate that the burials are 1,161 to 1,200 years old, in line with the Terminal Classic era (750-850 A.D.), although further research is required, Armijo stated.<\/p>\n<p>The archeology discovery site is located about three kilometers north of the Grand Acropolis of Comalcalco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico&#8217;s National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) reported the discovery of a cemetery more than 1,000 years old in Comalcalco, Tabasco, possibly of the Mayan civilization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,74,63,118,34,14],"tags":[16226,16231,16229,16227,16230,16233,16234,16232,16228],"class_list":["post-12663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-world","tag-archeology-discovery","tag-grand-acropolis-of-comalcalco","tag-maya-discovery","tag-mayan-civilization","tag-mayan-discovery","tag-mexico-archeology","tag-mexico-archeology-sites","tag-mexico-mayan","tag-tabasco-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}