Archaeologists may have found ruins of fabled entrance to Zapotec underworld (arstechnica.com)

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[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

They aren't digging for now. It's a geophysical survey. It will be difficult to access the temple because there's a church on top of it and the main entrance is likely under the church's altar.

[-] electronicoldman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Other than being Mesoamerican, this is literally the beginning of Diablo 1. And now I’m thinking about how Diablo is called Diablo and not Devil.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Sometimes I feel like we live in Sanctuary. I guess we will find out.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

This is pretty common for churches. A lot are built on older sacred places which makes it hard to study early cultures. It's always exciting when we can get at those things as a lot of the cases the churches have high heritage values themselves. :)

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

In this case, built on an older sacred place to erase the original sacred place from existence. Except a few hundred years later, they failed.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

As is usually the case, for location choice. A religious kind of imperialism.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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