{"id":337859,"date":"2026-05-20T17:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=337859"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:11:32","slug":"human-stays-and-burial-offerings-present-in-tombs-under-1800-yr-old-pre-aztec-village-in-mexico-news-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/human-stays-and-burial-offerings-present-in-tombs-under-1800-yr-old-pre-aztec-village-in-mexico-news-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Human stays and burial offerings present in tombs under 1,800 yr old pre-Aztec village in Mexico | News Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A skeleton discovered in one among the shaft tombs found at Tula in central Mexico, that are around 1,800 years old (Picture: INAH\/Cover Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Five ancient shaft tombs full of human stays and burial offerings have been uncovered in central Mexico.<\/p>\n

The chilling discovery was made during excavations linked to a serious railway project in Tula, Hidalgo.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists found one chamber containing the stays of eight people alongside 47 miniature ceramic vessels, with several bodies buried in seated positions and offerings placed at their feet.<\/p>\n

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The Teotihuac\u00e1n pyramids, Mexico. They’re attributed to the identical civilisation because the shaft burials (Picture: Ralf Roletschek\/Cover Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the many artefacts recovered were fragments of a semi-circular mother-of-pearl pendant, plaques constructed from the small material, a small shell and decorated vessels.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the Archaeological Salvage Programme, led by archaeologist V\u00edctor Heredia Guill\u00e9n, has been on site since September 2025.<\/p>\n

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They’ve now documented greater than a dozen individual and collective burials at the location, including the stays of youngsters, teenagers and adults.<\/p>\n

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A few of the skeletons were found surrounded by grave goods (Picture: Ralf Roletschek\/Cover Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mexico\u2019s culture secretary, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, said the find \u2018provides information concerning the ways of life, beliefs, and social organisation of those that inhabited this region greater than a thousand years ago, and confirms that infrastructure development may be accompanied by rigorous research and the preservation of heritage.\u2019<\/p>\n

The tombs were carved into tepetate, a hardened volcanic soil found across the region, beneath the stays of ancient homes and courtyards dating back almost 1,800 years.<\/p>\n

A lot of the structures uncovered belong to the Teotihuacan civilisation, which was distinguished between AD225 and 550<\/p>\n

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Archaeologists have been working on the location since September (Picture: INAH\/Cover Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The culture is known for constructing the enormous pyramids at Teotihuacan, which gave it its name, and existed centuries before the Aztecs.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists first identified the location after spotting fragments of ancient pottery scattered across the surface. Test excavations revealed the foundations of residential compounds.<\/p>\n

The settlement formed a part of a wider network of Teotihuacan-linked communities spread across northern Tula dating from AD 200 to 650.<\/p>\n

These include Ching\u00fa, considered a regional centre of Teotihuacan expansion, in addition to El Tesoro, Acoculco, El Llano, and La Malinche.<\/p>\n

Last yr, liquid mercury was present in the Quetzalcoatl temple \u2013 often known as the Feathered Serpent Pyramid \u2013 in the traditional city of Teotihuacan.<\/p>\n

Experts consider it can have been regarded as a \u2018gateway to the underworld\u2019.<\/p>\n

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A skeleton discovered in one among the shaft tombs found at Tula in central Mexico, that are around 1,800 years old (Picture: INAH\/Cover Media) Five ancient shaft tombs full of human stays and burial offerings have been uncovered in central Mexico. The chilling discovery was made during excavations linked to a serious railway project in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[30340,1069,3400,395,7897,51939,10715,627,31309,17136,822],"class_list":["post-337859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-burial","tag-human","tag-mexico","tag-news","tag-offerings","tag-preaztec","tag-remains","tag-tech","tag-tombs","tag-village","tag-year"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337862,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337859\/revisions\/337862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}