a group of archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico, recently found 116 more 1,000 years old tomb. These tombs near Maya site in southern Mexico.
As quoted from Reuters, Thursday (29/6/2011), the tombs were discovered near the ruins of the Mayan buildings in Comalcalco, Tabasco, Mexico State.
The INAH said that on the site location found 66 framework on the pot's funeral, then bits and pieces of bone were also discovered around the vase.
The study did find a lot of frameworks, which are believed by scientists is the most populous region. Archaeologists that conduct research believes that the site is the tomb of the pre-Hispanic cultures.
The tombs were found in a mound of soil thickness, which is 2.8 miles to the North of the Great sites in Comalcalco Acropolis.
"This site will provide valuable information. The expedition for 35 days we did manage to find 116 framework, "said Richardo Armijo, Coordinator of the excavation.
Armijo has also said that the 66 large vase was found with the skeletons in it, proving that the buried is the executives with the Mayans.
Other objects are also found in the burial location is a whistle, ceramics, a knife, machete, rock carving, and others.
Archaeologists who examined the site believe that the graves until the 1,200-year-old 1.161.
The Mayans built a temple in the South much of Mexico and Central America at 750 to 850 years ad. They dominated the two areas over the past two thousand years, before it was mysteriously abandoned their cities in 900 after ad.
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