An Intact 1,400-Year-Old Zapotec Tomb Discovered in Oaxaca

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• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A stone figure jutting out of a wall portrays a stylized owl holding the head of a person in its open mouth. Some red pigment remains visible on the human head, any other pigment has faded

  Image credit: Luis Gerardo Peña Torres

  The entrance to the antechamber is presided over by a powerful representation, clear in its meaning: an owl, a bird that in the Zapotec imagination encapsulated the concepts of night and death. This figure is not a mere ornament; its beak ritually covers the stuccoed and painted face of a male individual, a probable portrait of the principal figure interred in the tomb.

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  • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is amazing! Can’t wait to get some more photos of that. Thank you so much for tagging me.

    In the meanwhile, there’s someone here that may enjoy this even more than me!

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    • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh that’s choice stuff! Look at the detail on the face!

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• newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow, incredible stuff!

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