MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists in Mexico stated Wednesday they’ve discovered 13 buried units of human stays, eight of which look like younger males who had been apparently decapitated as a part of a ceremony to consecrate a temple.
Mexico’s Nationwide Institute of Anthropology and Historical past stated the skeletal stays could also be as a lot as 2,000 years outdated. Ceremonial choices of a whole bunch of beads, arrowheads and rings fabricated from shells had been with the stays.
They had been discovered at a Mayan smash web site generally known as Ethical-Reforma within the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The positioning apparently functioned as a cease on a river commerce route connecting the Mayan kingdoms of the Yucatan and Central America with different cultures on the Gulf coast.
The institute stated the stays of the eight sacrificial victims seem to have been hacked up and dispersed in an space on the foot of the pyramidal temple, as a result of the bones had been discovered scattered.
One other group of bones was discovered on the identical web site which may come from a whole bunch of years later.