[SunkenCiv]

The first documented record of salt as an ancient Maya commodity at a marketplace is depicted in a mural painted more than 2,500 years ago at Calakmul, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Credit: Rogelio Valencia, Proyecto Arqueológico Calakmul

[Repeal The 17th]

Why we have the word”salary”.

[Varda]

That’s beautiful work. Also that clothing the vendor has looks like something you could see on the street today.

[BobL]

Damn, were they carb loading even back then?

[HandyDandy]

On the other hand, it could be a sacrificial altar,........ if not a fertility rite.

[bigbob]

The one on the right is Oprah.

[Covenantor]

If they had all this pottery as described why would a chunk of salt be wrapped in leaves? In a damp climate. Is there a glyph shown that denotes salt?

Because it looks like a pimp staring at his empty coke spoon wondering what his ho did with the money. She seems to be offering some cabbage. I known I’ve seen that woman before...on Oprah...Jerry Springer, or Geraldo maybe

[bgill]

shows what appears to be a salt cake wrapped in leaves to another person, who holds a large spoon over a basket, presumably of loose, granular salt.

Appears to be and presumably. I'd like a job where I could throw anything out to see what sticks.

The woman needs to cut back on her salt intake.

[a fool in paradise]

Who had the taffy franchise?

[dragnet2]

It appears they were well fed back then.

[blueunicorn6]

Just think.....2500 years ago some guy tried to eat a cabbage with an ice cream scoop.

[rdl6989]

I hate to be stupid, but how do we know salt is the good in the image?

[Kevmo]

Unattractive,fat woman in the marketplace.

Times have not changed much.

[central_va]

Mayans were fat?