During excavations in Mexico, scientists have discovered a mass grave of the Maya. The skeletons indicate a brutal handling of the people with his prisoners go.
A lower jaw of a 1400 year old Mayan city of the mass grave was found Uxul | © Uni Bonn / dpa
the art of the Maya, the brutality of the Indian culture people against enemies was often depicted. The discovery of a 1400 year old mass grave in the former Mayan city in Mexico Uxul to confirm that dismemberment of war prisoners and opponents was actually practiced now.
scientists at the University of Bonn have encountered in the excavation of a mass grave in Mexico on the Mayan. In a roughly 32-square-meter artificial cave skeletons were uncovered by 24 people. The show marks on the bones, that the Maya carved up their enemies, said Professor Nikolai Grube, head of the Ancient American Studies Department at the University of Bonn.
Nicolaus Seefeld, who explored the water supply system of Uxul for his doctorate, came across the mass grave in the cave that the Maya once served as a water reservoir. During excavations in April skeletons were found, which had not been in their original anatomical composite, Seefeld said. So skull had located scattered in the cave. Most of the lower jaw had been separated from the skull. According to the researchers, the distribution of the bones suggests that people were beheaded and dismembered.
Because the skeletons are well preserved under a layer of clay, even could be determined in 15 people age and gender. It included 13 men and two women who were at the time of her death 18 to 24 years old. It is unclear, however, whether they were prisoners of war from another Maya city that were sacrificed in Uxul or to nobles from Uxul itself Isotopic analysis is now to clarify.
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