Zea Flores said the high-quality Mayan burial urns, gold adornments and polychrome ceramics with hieroglyphics, all from El Peten jungle, were stolen from Mayan sites and smuggled from the country without the export permits that Guatemala has required since 1947.
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In the end, whether it might be a vase on a table, an empty coin bank, the bowl on the night stand, a burial urn or a ballot box, what could be more natural than to put something in a vessel ?"
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The Burial Urn people were likely the first inhabitants of the Coosha and Chickasawhay towns, which together made up the Eastern District, and the Plaquemines and prairie people inhabited what is today considered the southern district, more commonly known as the Six Towns District.
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The renovation included a limestone visitors center that resembles the missions along the San Antonio River, a crescent pond, a red granite wall with niches for burial urns and a 150-foot-tall flagpole from which a 29-by-40 flag flies.
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These Mayan ceramics made by the K'iche people of Guatemala between 650 and 850 AD functioned as burial urns : Tightly bound bodies were placed in them, along with offerings; then they were hidden in pyramids or sacred caves, meant never to be seen again.
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The episode closes with Mulder suspecting that the animal attacks were associated with the burial urn that had been removed against the wishes of the Ecuadorian tribespeople; it is shortly returned to the burial grounds, where the local shaman watches the urn's reburial with jaguar-like eyes.
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Starting Friday, the public can see fine Mayan jade, pottery and burial urns in a new permanent exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts _ a collection that has provoked scorn among some archeologists, protests from government officials in Central America and ethical questions about the museum's acquisition policies.
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According to Patricia Galloway, the Choctaw region of Mississippi was slowly occupied by Burial Urn people from the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds area in the Mobile, Alabama delta, along with remnants of people from the Moundville chiefdom ( near present-day Tuscaloosa, Alabama ), which had collapsed in the mid-14th century.
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The first dynasty, called the Wikyama ( Vikrama ) Dynasty, is believed by G . H . Luce and Than Tun to have launched the Pyu calendar with the epochal date of 22 March 638, which later became the Burmese calendar, in 640 AD . Given the evidence for the of dating Sri Ksetra earlier then the seventh century, it is likely that Pyu kings existed prior to names mentioned on the burial urns.
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Roman burial urns were also found at Bank Street near Sheffield Cathedral, which, along with the name of the old lane behind the church ( Campo Lane suggests two alternative derivations for the name " Campo Lane " : that it may refer to a field in which football was played, or that it is derived from the Norse " kambr " meaning a ridge . | group = n } } ), has led to speculation that there may have been a Roman camp at this site . . | group = n } } It is unlikely that the settlement that grew into Sheffield existed at this time.
