Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World Heritage site, the ruins of Palenque lie in the lush basin of the Usumacinta River in the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.
Alongside the crab remains, they found a stucco head that appeared to represent an ancient ruler of Palenque, a ceramic vessel with an image of a Maya deity, and a pipe shaped like a river prawn.
How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...