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Mayan art sacrifices found at the bottom of the holy lake

The Polish diving team spent a month working with Guatemalan archaeologists in Lake Petenica. A team of Polish archaeologists in the Petritza project sneaked into a potential sacred lake in northern Guatemala. They found hundreds of Mayan artifacts, including ritual bowls and obsidian blades that might be used for ancient animal sacrifices.

Scientists in Guatemala are examining these cultural relics to understand the material culture of Maya in different periods. The researchers also want to know the relationship between these objects and Mayan religious customs.

Researchers found more than 800 cultural relics in Lake Peten Izan, which once surrounded the ancient Mayan city of Nojepayne. According to Magdalena Kelser Mien, an archaeologist at the University of Giallo, the head of the research team.

This island was once the ruins of the ancient Mayan city, connected to the coast by causeway, and now it is the ruins of Flores, a modern town in Peté n, the northernmost province of Guatemala, an inland area famous for its rugged mountains and jungles.

A Mayan clay pot at the bottom of Lake Petenyitza in Guatemala. Many cultural relics found in the lake (Peter Itza Project) are small pottery fragments, some of which can be traced back to the Maya primitive classical period (65438 BC +050 to AD 250), and most of them can be traced back to the Maya post-classical period (65438 +0000 to 65438 +0697).

Krzemie Qin said that the largest cultural relic was found in the lake, with three ceramic bowls, one in the other and an obsidian knife. She said that this is similar to the knife used in ancient ceremonies, indicating that it may be used for human or animal sacrifices.

The researchers said that the obsidian blade found in Lake Petenyitza may be used for sacrifice. Krzemien said that the bones of small animals were found in some bowls, which may indicate that these utensils were used for sacrifice. However, she said, it is also possible that some small animals later entered and died there.

The lakes around the ancient city of Nojepayne may have played an important role in the rituals of the ancient Maya.

"Water has a very special symbolic significance in the ancient Mayan beliefs," Krzemie n said. She said it was considered as the middle gate between the underground world and the dead world. Because of these beliefs, ancient Mayans sacrificed animals, sometimes humans, to their gods in lakes called "monuments" and flooded limestone pits, which was very common in this area.

Krzemienn said that the recent expedition did not confirm that the whole Lake Petenyitza was a sacred place, but some ritual objects they found underwater showed that at least some lakes were considered "sacred" by people living there. The ancient city of Maya Lake is the center of Mayan civilization in pre-Columbian times-a civilization spanning parts of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador in southeastern Mexico. The most famous Mayan archaeological site is the ancient city of Ithaca, Chen Chi, which is located in the modern Yucatan Peninsula. "KDSP" and "KDSP" Mayans have made progress in the civilization that lasted for more than two years-including intricate astronomical calendars and culturally unique pictures and characters. Before Europeans came to America 1000 years. Maya culture also influenced other Central American civilizations, such as the Aztec culture in central Mexico. "KDSP" and "KDSP" are six Polish diving teams that have been studied recently, including archaeologists from Agalon University in Krakow, Nicolas Copernicus University in Toru University and Warsaw University. In August and September last year, the researchers stayed in the lake for a month and dived about 90 times at different depths.