Giant Maya Carvings Found in Guatemala


 Picture of archaeologist Anya Shetler cleaning ancient stucco frieze recently unearthed in the buried Maya city of Holmul in the Peten region of Guatemala



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Photograph courtesy Francisco Estrada-Belli
Archaeologist Anya Shetler cleans an inscription below an ancient stucco frieze recently unearthed in the buried Maya city of Holmul in the Peten region of Guatemala. Sunlight from a tunnel entrance highlights the carved legs of a ruler sitting atop the head of a Maya mountain spirit.


Giant Maya Carvings Found in Guatemala
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