[Renfield]

From last year, but I searched and didn't find this article on FR.

[Renfield]

Maya ping

[Beckett08]

Ping for after church

[Tijeras_Slim]

The indigenous do love their bling.

[Chainmail]

Three cheers for "cultural diversity"!

Wonder if the current residents are at all thankful for the gift of the European invasion? Certainly the owners of the fingers and teeth and the parents of those infants would have wished that they arrived earlier...

[bgill]

Teeth bling is hardly a lost art. That's a 150K grill Lil Wayne is flashing. And they say you can't take it with you.

[Popman]

I always find it amazing people buy into the 2012 Maya calendar devised by a people who saciface babies,pull beating hearts out of live people, ritual killing by the thousands

I don't get it

[muawiyah]

It clearly presages the coming of the internet ~ finger bones ~ all that's left of a myriad of devotees; young babies who were cut down before they could live "off net", and worse ZOTZ!

Great Turtle? I have this Apple Mouse and doggone if it doesn't look like a turtle ~

Is this a real article?

[montag813]

Sounds like Mel Gibson got it right in ‘Apocalypto’, or perhaps didn’t go far enough. The “Aztlan” racists are always telling us how the Mayan civilization was peaceful, worshipped the stars in harmony, etc. B.S.

[Diogenesis]

[wildbill]

When practicing ritual child sacrifice and cannibalism, it’s always good etiquitte to use a finger bowl.

[shoff]

Why do archeologists always try to bend old civilizations into modern times? “The children did not reach personhood” Is this another way of saying very late term abortion? Maybe the Mayans had great respect for children and it was the highest form of sacrifice to the gods. Think of the slaughtered calf. If they had no respect for children would it not have been like offering leftovers to the gods?

[Grizzled Bear]

Reeking of decay and packed with bowls of human fingers, a partly burned baby, and gem-studded teeth—among other artifacts—a newfound Maya king's tomb sounds like an overripe episode of Tales From the Crypt.

A Democratic Party Fund Raiser.

[Mariner]

A primitive, evil people.

Still, much of their base culture survives in meso-America. We see it in beheadings along the border.

Blood lust.

[Moltke]

"This thing was like Fort Knox," said Brown University archaeologist Stephen Houston

No gold was found when opened?

[ExGeeEye]

Two pieces of flamebait:

“Too bad that noble civilization was overrun by the eeeeeeeeeeeeevil white Spaniards.”

“So...were they the Jaredites? or the Lamanites? or some other ancient Jooooooooooooooooooos?”

[ApplegateRanch]

I always knew there was more truth to this story than was ever admitted.

Explains the bowls of the fingers: they belonged to previous holders of the Power of Zotz!

[patriot08]

Interesting rare kitty from site:

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/animals-news/african-golden-cat-vin.html

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Ping...

[Charles Henrickson]

[worst-case scenario]

Ever since I was a kid and used to pore through Nat Geo’s “Everyday Life in Ancient Times,” their stories about the Pre-Columbian Mexican civilizations have always creeped me out the most.

Still do. So my thanks are sincere - though muted.