Word: saturno
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...team of researchers led by an associate for Harvard’s Peabody Museum, William A. Saturno, announced last week that they have discovered the oldest known Mayan mural. The mural, which Saturno found by sheer accident in San Bartolo, Gautemala, dates back to 100 BC, tests revealed. Saturno first stumbled over the site while on a field expedition for the Peabody’s Corpus of Mayan Hieroglyphic Inscriptions in 2001. At the San Bartolo site in the northeastern Peten region of Guatemala, several tunnels and trenches, originally dug by looters, run under a larger pyramid. Saturno was seeking...
...archeological team, headed by Peabody Museum Researcher William Saturno, discovered the mural in the ruins of a previously unknown Mayan ceremonial site at San Bartolo in northeastern Guatemala last summer. The find was first announced to the public last Wednesday...
...painting is really in excellent condition,” said David Stuart, a senior lecturer in Harvard’s anthropology department, who has joined Saturno on subsequent visits to the site...