Over 100 victims who were sacrificed for the rain god by the Mayans more than a thousand years ago are still leaving evidence in the midnight cave in Blaise, Central America, more than 15 years after its discovery.
The cave was used for burial during the classic period of Maya (250 to 925 AD), and the cave was named by the local population and after a three -year dug project by California State University, Los Angeles (California) concluded professors and students until more than 10,000 At least 118 persons are represented by a bone that was found in the cave, and many of them show signs of shock from being submerged so quickly after passing away.
To gain a deeper understanding of the victims’ final moments, the most recent study focused on their mouths rather than their bones. It searched for the levers by their teeth, known as the dental differentiation, and discussed a study that examined the strange blue fibres that appeared in two of the victims’ less-than-victims’ teeth and was published in the International Magazine of Archeology.
According to Live Science, Amy Chan, the main study’s author, began her examination of teeth from a nighttime cave while she was a graduate student at California State University, Los Angeles, where she was eager to discover more about the victims’ tooth’s health.
She explained, “I became interested in identifying the meals that the victims were eating after uncovering a few cases of oral disorders.
Linda Scott Kamings, CEO of the Paleoresearch Institute in Golden, Colorado, and Scott Kamengz discovered that samples include cotton fibres and that many of them were dyed in light blue. The six-to-teeth, a six-to-teeth, according to the participating permitted study.
Given the significance of blue in Mayan rites, Chan said it was unexpected to find blue cotton threads in both samples.
According to Chan and her colleagues’ research, the distinctive “Zarqa” tincture was also discovered in other parts of Central America, where it appears that it was used in celebrations, particularly to dye the bodies of sacrificial victims. These blue fibres were also discovered in an alcoholic beverage at the Tiotiukan burials, an archaeological site in what is now Mexico.
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