August
03
/ 2022
Archaeologists in Mexico have discussed the ritual significance of the Maya “Cave of Death”. It contained ingredients of rubber sporting balls laced with human ashes. The pre-Columbian Maya city of Po’p (Tonina), meaning “house of stone” in the Tzeltal language, is located in what is now the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 8 miles (13 km) east of the town of Ocosingo. Featuring the tallest structures in the Maya world, reaching 74 meters (241 ft), the lost pyramids of Tonina rise high above the jungles of southeastern Mexico. In 2020, buried eight meters beneath the site's most important pyramid, archaeologists found a 7th or 8th century chamber/crypt. A small hole beneath a stone led the researchers to a series of
