{"id":88419,"date":"2019-03-05T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/sealed-maya-ritual-cave-untouched-for-1000-years-contains-trove-of-stunning-relics"},"modified":"2019-03-05T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:43:42","slug":"sealed-maya-ritual-cave-untouched-for-1000-years-contains-trove-of-stunning-relics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/sealed-maya-ritual-cave-untouched-for-1000-years-contains-trove-of-stunning-relics","title":{"rendered":"Sealed Maya \u2018ritual cave\u2019 untouched for 1,000 years contains trove of stunning relics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sealed-maya-ritual-cave-untouched-for-1000-years-contains-trove-of-stunning-relics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists in Mexico have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/columns\/digging-history\" target=\"_blank\">discovered<\/a> a sealed Maya \u201critual cave\u201d containing a trove of relics that offer new clues about the ancient civilization.<\/p>\n<p>The cave system, which researchers believe had been sealed for 1,000 years, is known as Balamku or \u201cJaguar God,\u201d and contains at least 150 stunning objects. The findings were announced at a Monday press conference in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>According to researchers, the cave\u2019s difficult access and structure increase its sacred qualities, suggesting that it was used for rituals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/sealed-maya-ritual-cave-untouched-for-1000-years-was-opening-to-the-underworld\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/sealed-maya-ritual-cave-unto...underworld<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a sealed Maya \u201critual cave\u201d containing a trove of relics that offer new clues about the ancient civilization. The cave system, which researchers believe had been sealed for 1,000 years, is known as Balamku or \u201cJaguar God,\u201d and contains at least 150 stunning objects. The findings were announced at a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}