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May 26, 2012

Altaring the past

Filed under: Uncategorized — acagle @ 10:24 am

Mexican archaeologists find 2,500-year-old altar

An altar and a stela estimated to date from as early as 800 B.C. were found at the Chalcatzingo archaeological site in the central state of Morelos, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, or INAH, said.

The altar is rectangular and covered with engravings representing rain

A few meters (yards) away from the altar was an unfinished stela standing 1.7 meters (5 feet 6 inches) tall.

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