With its fine painting and its elaborate mural showing the mythic basis of kingship, the chamber has upended much of what we thought we knew about the early Maya. The mural shows that early Maya painting had achieved a high level of sophistication and grace well before the great works of the Classic Maya in the seventh century. -Bill Saturno

 

With its fine painting and its elaborate mural showing the mythic basis of kingship, the chamber has upended much of what we thought we knew about the early Maya. The mural shows that early Maya painting had achieved a high level of sophistication and grace well before the great works of the Classic Maya in the seventh century.


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I didn't want to tell her what an idiot I had been ? how I had put her and our family at risk.

Bill Saturno

We found two limes and split them between the six of us. Yum.

Bill Saturno

It was the height of the dry season and we set off early in the morning on what was supposed to be a 3-hour drive followed by a 6-kilometer walk. The drive itself eventually became 12-1/2 hours because we had to cut our way through the jungle and create a whole new road to where we thought we were going.

Bill Saturno

We didn't tell anybody until March of 2002 ? that's when the April National Geographic was released with the first article about the site.

Bill Saturno