FOX News: 'Extraordinary' Mayan frieze found, Guatemalan government claims

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'Extraordinary' Mayan frieze found, Guatemalan government claims Aug 8th 2013, 04:00 GUATEMALA CITY –  The Guatemalan government says archeologists have found an "extraordinary" Mayan frieze richly decorated with images of gods and governors and a long dedicatory inscription. A statement issued Wednesday says the frieze was found by archaeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University's Anthropology Department and his team in the northern Province of Peten, home to other big classic ruin sites. The frieze is 8 meters (26 feet) long and 2 meters (6 feet) wide and was found at a Mayan pyramid that dates to A.D. 600. It includes three main characters wearing rich ornaments of quetzal feathers and jade sitting on monsters heads. In the government's words, the high-relief stucco sculpture is "an extraordinary finding that occurs only once in the lifetime of an archaeologist."

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