In just a few years, he dredged the Sacred Cenote with cranes and removed hundreds of bones and gold and jade objects that were sent to the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, where many of them ...

The Sacred Cenote is located in southeast Mexico and is one of several water-filled sinkholes found in the ancient city of Chichen-Itza ... discovered included gold, jade, copper, turquoise ...

It was regarded as a gateway to the underworld. In 1904, an array of artifacts, including gold, jade, pottery, and dozens of human skeletons, were retrieved from the bottom of the Sacred Cenote.

An angry mob almost lynched a tourist who climbed without permission the steps of the Castillo de Kukulcán, one of the new seven wonders of the modern world located in the archaeological zone of ...