Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 08/05/2010 8:56:07 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
A well-preserved tomb believed to be the final resting place of an ancient Mayan king has been discovered in Guatemala, scientists announced last week.
The 1,600-year-old tomb was discovered on May 29 beneath the El Diablo pyramid in the city of El Zotz. It is packed with of carvings, ceramics, textiles, and the bones of six children, who might have been sacrificed at the time of the king's death.
However, much more work is needed before the scientists can piece together all the clues about the tomb's owner.
"We still have a great deal of work to do," said Stephen Houston an archaeologist at Brown University in Rhode Island. "We've only been out of the field for a few weeks, and we're still catching our breath after a very difficult, technical excavation. Royal tombs are hugely dense with information and require years of study to understand."
Before making the actual discovery, Houston said the team thought "something odd" was happening in the deposit where they were digging. They knew a small temple had been built in front of a sprawling structure dedicated to the sun god, an emblem of Maya rulership.
"When we sunk a pit into the small chamber of the temple, we hit almost immediately a series of 'caches' — blood-red bowls containing human fingers and teeth, all wrapped in some kind of organic substance that left an impression in the plaster. We then dug through layer after layer of flat stones, alternating with mud, which probably is what kept the tomb so intact and airtight."
Eventually the scientists unearthed the final layer to reveal a small hole.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Yes ... there is little difference in the worship of “ba’al”, of “tlaloc”, and of “convenience”.
Stays crunchy in milk and provides 8000% of the USDA minimum daily requirements for calcium. Along with fresh human spleen and peyote, part of a complete balanced breakfast.
Thanks for the link!
“Did King Tut’s Tomb really unleash a curse? New findings are showing that bacteria on the wall of the tomb might have been the cause of the curse. The bacteria would release spores into the air allowing it to be breathed. This in turn caused people who came into contact with these spores to become ill.”
http://www.kingtutone.com/tutankhamun/curse/
Ah - the people who love and revere savages. Peaceful tolerant cannibals who brutally murdered innocent people.
When Mayans invite you for supper, they really mean it!
Actually contrary to popular belief, Mayan civilization was long gone hundreds of years before the Spanish arrived in the New World...
That’s one thing that makes them fascinating, as they appear to have burned out completely on their own. The more we learn about them too, the more perverted and bloody they appear.
Even so, colonial Spanish brutality, while terrible was much more humane to the existing peoples than that of the then existing civilizations of the Aztec in Central America, or the Inca in South America.
They never invented the wheel but sure knew how to throw a party.... so long as you are not the guest of honor.
“in the city of El Zotz”
Would that be located in the state of El Freerepublic?
I heard rumors Jim was old, but holy smokes!
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