{"id":31467,"date":"2025-07-10T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31467"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:24:13","slug":"maya-rulers-tomb-is-unearthed-in-belize-with-clues-to-his-ancient-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31467","title":{"rendered":"Maya Ruler\u2019s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coati-mundi were found with the ruler.<\/p>\n

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The archaeologists worked in the shadow of towering Maya ruins, piercing the floor of a structure they had searched years before.<\/p>\n

Below, they found an even more ancient chamber, still holding a body and the treasures it was buried with: a rare mosaic death mask and jadeite jewelry, shells from the Pacific and elaborate designs on pottery and bone.<\/p>\n

It was the 1,700-year-old tomb of a Maya ruler \u2014 the first ever found at Caracol<\/a>, the largest Maya site in Belize \u2014 and it held clues to a Mesoamerican world where cities contended with one another from hundreds of miles apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve found a very early ruler, so that\u2019s very important, and he\u2019s claimed to be the founder of a dynasty,\u201d said Gary Feinman, an archaeologist at Field Museum of Chicago who was not involved in the excavation. \u201cThat\u2019s a major find.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Arlen Chase, one of the archaeologists working at Caracol, was among the first to enter the tomb. \u201cAs soon as we saw the chamber, we knew we had something,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

From the style of ceramic vessels, he knew the tomb was exceptionally old. From the red cinnabar all around, he knew it was for someone of very high status.<\/p>\n

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A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coati-mundi were found with the ruler.The archaeologists worked in the shadow of towering Maya ruins, piercing the floor of a structure they had searched years before.Below, they found an even more ancient chamber, still holding a body and the treasures it was buried with: a rare mosaic death mask and jadeite jewelry, shells from the Pacific and elaborate designs on pottery and bone.It was the 1,700-year-old tomb of a Maya ruler \u2014 the first ever found at Caracol, the largest Maya site in Belize \u2014 and it held clues to a Mesoamerican world where cities contended with one another from hundreds of miles apart.\u201cThey\u2019ve found a very early ruler, so that\u2019s very important, and he\u2019s claimed to be the founder of a dynasty,\u201d said Gary Feinman, an archaeologist at Field Museum of Chicago who was not involved in the excavation. \u201cThat\u2019s a major find.\u201dArlen Chase, one of the archaeologists working at Caracol, was among the first to enter the tomb. \u201cAs soon as we saw the chamber, we knew we had something,\u201d he said.From the style of ceramic vessels, he knew the tomb was exceptionally old. From the red cinnabar all around, he knew it was for someone of very high status.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31469,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31470,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31467\/revisions\/31470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}