Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala

[Judi Lynn]

Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala

THE TOMB OF A MAYA RULER EXCAVATED THIS SUMMER AT THE CLASSIC MAYA CITY OF WAKA’ IN NORTHERN GUATEMALA IS THE OLDEST ROYAL TOMB YET TO BE DISCOVERED AT THE SITE, THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND SPORTS OF GUATEMALA HAS ANNOUNCED.

“The Classic Maya revered their divine rulers and treated them as living souls after death,” said research co-director David Freidel, professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

“This king’s tomb helped to make the royal palace acropolis holy ground, a place of majesty, early in the history of the Wak — centipede — dynasty. It’s like the ancient Saxon kings England buried in Old Minister, the original church underneath Winchester Cathedral.”

The tomb, discovered by Guatemalan archaeologists of the U.S.-Guatemalan El Perú-Waka’ Archaeological Project (Proyecto Arqueológico Waka’, or PAW), has been provisionally dated by ceramic analysis to 300-350 A.D., making it the earliest known royal tomb in the northwestern Petén region of Guatemala.

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El Peru Waka in the Yucatan Peninsula

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala

September 14, 2017 by Gerry Everding



Palace Acropolis at the Maya city of El Peru-Waka in northern Guatemala. Credit: Damien Marken

The tomb of a Maya ruler excavated this summer at the Classic Maya city of Waka' in northern Guatemala is the oldest royal tomb yet to be discovered at the site, the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala has announced.

"The Classic Maya revered their divine rulers and treated them as living souls after death," said research co-director David Freidel, professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

"This king's tomb helped to make the royal palace acropolis holy ground, a place of majesty, early in the history of the Wak—centipede—dynasty. It's like the ancient Saxon kings England buried in Old Minister, the original church underneath Winchester Cathedral."

The tomb, discovered by Guatemalan archaeologists of the U.S.-Guatemalan El Perú-Waka' Archaeological Project (Proyecto Arqueológico Waka', or PAW), has been provisionally dated by ceramic analysis to 300-350 A.D., making it the earliest known royal tomb in the northwestern Petén region of Guatemala.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-tomb-early-classic-maya-ruler.html#jCp

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2. 1,000-Year-Old Tomb of Maya King Discovered in Guatemala

1,000-Year-Old Tomb of Maya King Discovered in Guatemala
By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | September 18, 2017 07:02am ET

Archaeologists digging under a Maya palace in Guatemala say they have opened the tomb of a royal and found a jade mask and bones, both painted bright red.

The tomb was unearthed at the site of El Perú-Waka' in the rainforest of northern Guatemala. Though the dense city was filled with hundreds of buildings, including pyramids, palaces, plazas and houses, it was only rediscovered in the 1960s, when petroleum workers stumbled upon the ruins.

The site was occupied during the Classic Maya period (from around A.D. 200 to 800), and it had close ties to the nearby Maya rival capitals Tikal and Calakmul. A wealthy royal family once ruled Waka' and controlled what was a major trade route along the San Pedro River. [See Photos of Another Mayan Tomb]

A team of American and Guatemalan archaeologists have been excavating Waka' since 2003. They've found several burials of kings and queens (as well as some potential human sacrificial offerings).

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