Jason Paling, a native of Nashua, New York, tells the Nashua Telegraph about his involvement in finding the oldest known royal burial at a Mayan site.

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Royal Tomb is found at Nakum containing a woman ruler's skeleton. Archaeologists fom the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology in Krakow, Poland have located a 1,300 tomb containing the burial of a rare female ruler.

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The authors describe the excavation and interpretation of an intact seventh-century high status burial at the Maya site of Nakum. Article in Antiquity http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/085/ant0850890.htm

National Geographic announcement http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110922-rare-mayan-female-ruler-tomb-found-guatemala/#/mayan-maize-god-skull_40671_600x450.jpg