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...capital to the right shows that dramatic scene in which the three Marys arrive at the tomb of Christ to find him gone. The angel is seen pointing into the tomb to further emphasize the fact of Christ's resurrection. On the left face of the capital, the figure of a sleeping guard is carved, while on the right the third Mary leans forward the better to see into the sepulchre...
...staircase with narrow treads and high risers they entered the tomb's antechamber. Nothing remarkable there. Beyond was a flat-ceilinged room. Again nothing remarkable. But there was a second room in whose murk things glittered. Professor Caso forbade any one to follow him except his wife and two other assistants. Carefully they crawled forward...
Other bone mementos in the tomb of the Cloud warriors were "carved with a technique not surpassed by fine Chinese work on ivory," the carvings depicting events of history and details of ritual...
Best find in the tomb was a gold mask, four inches high, representing terrific Xipetotec,* the Cloud People's god of vegetation, gold, silver and grief. For Xipetotec's pleasure one of his priests would dance in a skin freshly flayed from a dazzling, dazzled woman...
...anything of like value had ever been discovered in the Americas, the digger was no honorable scientist. The gold alone in this Mixtec tomb was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Museums and private collections would pay almost any amount for the trinkets. This was treasure too precious for Professor Caso to keep in his home down in Oaxaco. Last week he secretly carried them to the vaults of the local branch of the Bank of Mexico. Then he dared make his report...