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Scientists find one of Mesoamerica's oldest tombs

LOS ANGELES - U.S. and Mexican archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest tombs in Mesoamerica, a burial chamber from at least 2,500 years ago in the state of Chiapas that contains the remains of what appears to be one of the first powerful rulers of the Zoque people.

"There certainly isn't any tomb that is earlier . . . and this is the only one found at the very crest of a pyramid,...

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