Archaeologists may have discovered the tomb of mayan ruler, Queen Lady K'abel, Livescience.com reported.
The backdrop is in the northern Guatemala rain forest in the ancient Maya city of El Puer-Waka. Archaeologists were on a dig where they uncovered the tomb which included the body and a white jar that is shaped lie a conch shell with carvings of a head and arm of a woman. Livescience reported that the heiroglyphs on the artifact suggest that it did certainly belong to Queen Lady K'abel.
David Freidel, an archaeologist who was working on the site said to Livescience, "Nothing is ever proven in archaeology because we're working with circumstantial evidence. But in our case we have a carved stone alabaster jar that is named K'abel's possession," Freidel works at the University of Washington University in St. Louis.
The people of of El Puer-Waka resided in the area reportedly from A.D 200-900.
Discovery News reported that Lady K'abel was the most powerful person in El Puer-Waka during that period.
"Lady K'abel ruled with her husband, K'inich Bahlam, for at least 20 years (672-692 A.D.). She was the military governor of the Wak kingdom for her family, the imperial house of the Snake King, and carried the title Kaloomte', which translates to "Supreme Warrior," Discovery News reported.
Discovery News reported that the shrine had a fire altar inside of it "Below that last shrine was a buried earlier version and it was below this earlier shrine that the royal tomb was found," Freidel and Navarro-Farr said to Discovery News.
"To put the discovery into perspective, there are five maya tombs in Classic Maya history that are indentifiable as to the person inside them -- this is one of those five," Freidel added to Discovery News.
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