‘These rich garments and the remains of food only appear on rare occasions,’ Néstor added. ‘They were worn by the deceased on their way to the afterlife.’
These remains appear to be better preserved than most I’ve heard about,’ I said. ‘They will provide a lot of information about how this society lived.’
But the most interesting part was yet to come. In the lower portion of the city, James had found several less ostentatious but perhaps more important tombs next to a rock outcrop. I mean important in terms of the information they may have provided, and not in terms of the person inhabiting the tomb. They were not underground but located at the edge of a rocky slope. What’s more, the tombs had been carved out of the rock in an upright position. According to Néstor, such burials had never
