Archaeologists Discover Ancient Zapotec Tomb

Shameless bump.

I just wanted to thanks everybody for their replies It's great to know others share this interest.

Originally posted by SLAYER69

I appreciate the humor.

Care to post anything on topic though?

Nah.

I was just responding to this request:

Originally posted by Kangaruex4Ewe
If someone doesn't hurry up and dig some extra terrestrial stuff up my head is going to implode with all the wondering.

Nice find, though.

Harte

Man, all your threads are awesome! The things you dig up and find are so incredible, just to know how many people go day by day without ever realizing how magnificent us as a species [sometimes] are.

Awesome thread, I wish I had more to add... but unfortunately I don't. Keep up the threads Slayer.

S&F

Originally posted by sonnny1
Is that a Light Saber?

We euphemistically call that Mr. Happy

reply to post by SLAYER69


It's certainly something interesting, I'd say. Looks like we're missing a giant chunk of human history made on this corner of civilization.

Originally posted by SLAYER69

Originally posted by Kangaruex4Ewe
WTH Slayer??? Do you just sit around with 50 computers constantly scanning the net for these finds??

SLAYER69

Central command

Diggin your "great" photoshopping ability haha... *rolls eyes*

So dont you know that most of the winners of these games were sacraficed to the gods?

Ive seen an actual one of these ball games in action. Down in Xcaret.

does anyone realize that mummies & such are dug up in the name of science...and that makes it legal?just think a thousand yrs from now,(if earth survives that long),that they will be digging up OUR bodies,in the name of science & research?my point is...it is just appalling that you really DON'T have a final resting place.

reply to post by SLAYER69


Lord Pakal's height is indeed nowhere to be found.
His tomb lid however measures 2.2 by 3.8 meter...
But you're probably already aware of that.
Some info and pictures here

Nice find, thanks for the thread.

reply to post by Movhisattva


Awesome link. thanks for keeping us posted on this.

Now, can somebody tell me how they got the lid down there? They must have built the whole structure around it after is was put into position...

Originally posted by cathy57
does anyone realize that mummies & such are dug up in the name of science...and that makes it legal?just think a thousand yrs from now,(if earth survives that long),that they will be digging up OUR bodies,in the name of science & research?my point is...it is just appalling that you really DON'T have a final resting place.

I hope that our modern people's remains can aid people in the future in discovering their origins and learn the truth about how life was today.

We will be dead so really it won't hurt any.

If there is a good reason to dig up a body, maybe we should be open to the positive things it can bring?
(Contributing to overall human progress and profiting all peoples.)

We should be careful to distinguish that from the alternative, someone using it for a negative purpose (tomb robbing for personal gain, etc).

hey Slayer, are there any animated films of a mesoamerican ball game? Like , if such were televised on Nat Geo, Discovery , PBS NOVA or as such?

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They have games down in Xcaret. There pretty amazing look it up on their website you might find one there. They use their hips to score the ball.

awesome find Slayer!

seems like a lot of cool stuff has been discovered this year, all around the world

Juego de pelota "Mayan ball game today"

reply to post by Trueman


I'm glad I'm not alone in that assessment as well