Trading Cacao God
Ilari Valbonesi @ November 13, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The chocolate enjoyed around the world today had its origins at least 3,100 years ago in Central America as a cerimony beer-like beverage and status symbol, the author of The World of the Ancient Maya (Cornell University Press, 1997), John Henderson said.
All of the Mesoamerican peoples made chocolate beverages, who made it into […]
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Don’t press the button. The maiden, the boy, and the girl of lightning
Ilari Valbonesi @ September 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Researchers at the Museum of High Altitude Archaeology preparing the frozen mummy of a 15-year-old girl, called La Doncella, “the maiden,” for exhibition.
SALTA, Argentina — The maiden, the boy, the girl of lightning: they were three Inca children, entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a religious sacrifice.
The three […]
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