Word: teotihuacan
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...often construct an itinerary for the torch relay that showcases points of national pride. On its way to Mexico City in 1968, the torch retraced Christopher Columbus' path to the New World; one of its pit stops was at the Great Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan, where it was incorporated into an Aztec fire ceremony. For the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, torchbearers donned traditional Korean clothing to celebrate the nation's heritage. Twelve years later, on the way to Sydney, an Aboriginal field -hockey star kicked off the domestic...
...worth the trouble. "No one has ever found a burial of this richness intact at Teotihuacan before," says Cowgill. Among the booty: two 1 1/2-ft.-high greenstone statuettes; a couple of larger human figurines fashioned from obsidian; at least 15 double-edged obsidian knives similar to those used in sacrifices; shell pendants in the form of human teeth; pyrite disks (which served as mirrors); the skeletons of two young felines (possibly jaguars) in the remnants of a wooden cage; and the scattered bones of at least seven large birds...
...long run, the scientists say, the individual's social status and the richness of the offerings may not be as important as the burial's age, which places it in a crucial time period only a couple of centuries after the city was founded. "We know almost nothing about Teotihuacan's early political history, so [this discovery] should shed a lot more light on that," says Cowgill...
...real key to unraveling the secrets of Teotihuacan is more digging--a lot more--and Sugiyama's team is still hard at work. Despite this impressive discovery, says Cowgill, "95% of the city is still unexcavated. We're just scratching the surface...
ANDREA DORFMAN was uncovering the past in two stories she reported for this week's issue: one on an ancient skeleton found in South Africa, the other on the ruins of Teotihuacan in Mexico. "So much information is still unknown about who we are and where we came from," says Dorfman, who counts archeology as one of her passions. "As long as researchers continue to find information that adds to our understanding, I think people will be fascinated." The head reporter for TIME's science sections, Dorfman joined us in 1985 after working at a scientific magazine with Michael Lemonick...