Scholar finds Mayans’ long-buried highway through underworld

By Mark Stevenson / The Bulletin
November 10, 2008

TZIBICHEN CENOTE, Mexico — Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayans was a terrifying obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of sharp knives, bats and jaguars.

Now, a Mexican archaeologist using long-forgotten testimony from the Spanish....

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