Archaeologists have uncovered a roughly 1,300-year-old sculpture representing the head of a Mayan maize god in ruins in southeastern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said.
was found in Palenque facing east to west,"which would symbolize the birth of the maize plant with the first rays of the sun," it said in a statement Tuesday.
The sculpture was part of"an offering that was placed on a pond, emulating the entrance of the deity to the underworld, in anThe discovery"allows us to begin to know how the ancient Maya of Palenque constantly relived the mythical passage of the birth, death and resurrection of the maize deity," said researcher Arnoldo Gonzalez Cruz., it is in the process of gradually drying out before it is restored, the institute said.: retrieved 2 June 2022 from https://phys.
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