Archeologists find 'extraordinary' Mayan frieze with rich decorations in northern Guatemala

Published January 13, 2015

The Guatemalan government says archeologists have found an "extraordinary" Mayan frieze richly decorated with images of gods and governors and a long dedicatory inscription.

A statement issued Wednesday says the frieze was found by archaeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University's Anthropology Department and his team in the northern Province of Peten, home to other big classic ruin sites.

The frieze is 8 meters (26 feet) long and 2 meters (6 feet) wide and was found at a Mayan pyramid that dates to A.D. 600. It includes three main characters wearing rich ornaments of quetzal feathers and jade sitting on monsters heads.

In the government's words, the high-relief stucco sculpture is "an extraordinary finding that occurs only once in the lifetime of an archaeologist."

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