Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica. The tomb held a man aged around 50, who was buried with jade collars, pyrite and obsidian artifacts and ceramic vessels.
Archaeologist Emiliano Gallaga said the tomb dates to between 500 and 700 B.C. Based on the layers in which it was found and the tomb's unusual wooden construction, "we think this is one of the earliest discoveries of the use of a pyramid as a tomb, not only as a religious site or temple," Gallaga said. Pre-Hispanic cultures built pyramids mainly as representations of the levels leading from the underworld to the sky; the highest point usually held a temple.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 18 - 2010
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![]() A leading Bigfoot researcher has claimed that it is now mating season in Florida for the infamous Skunk Ape.Dave Shealy is one of the world"s leading researchers on the Skunk Ape, a bipedal hominid thought to live in the Florida Everglades. According to Shealy it is now their mating season and theircalls have been heard coming from the swamps. Views : 10
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![]() A young girl has baffled doctors by growing two replacement kidneys when her existing ones both failed.Having suffered from kidney infections since birth the five-year-old was found to have two new kidneys growing in to replace the two failing ones meaning that she had a record four kidneys in total. Now aged eight the girl is healthy andfull of life. Views : 9
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A reconstruction has revealed the face of a medieval knight whose skeleton was discovered at Stirling Castle. Experts are now attempting to discover the identity of the warrior, who is likely to have been killed in the 13th or 14th Century. The skeleton is one of 10 excavated from the site of a lost royal chapel at the castle. The skeleton of a woman was found near the knight.

