<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/692cd810-d7d3-4bb1-a2c6-7f587ec712be/85416C72-9F12-411B-92DF-7711E4C6D0FA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070517-maya-tomb.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070517-maya-tomb.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070517-maya-tomb.html"><P class="intro"> Archaeologists working in Honduras have discovered an entombed human skeleton of an elite member of the ancient Maya Empire that may help unravel some longstanding mysteries of the vanished culture. </P><P> The remains, seated in an upright position in an unusual tomb and flanked by shells, pottery, vessels, and jade adornments, suggest a surprisingly diverse culture and complex political system in the influential Maya city of Copán around A.D. 650. </p> <DIV id="storyInlineBox"> <P> <A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/66576080.html"> <IMG width="170" height="113" border="0" alt="Maya tomb picture" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/thumbs/070517-maya-tomb_170.jpg" class="photo" /> </A> </p> <P> </P><P><A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/66576080.html">Enlarge Photo</A></p> <P class="caption"> </p> <P> <IMG class="tool" alt="_" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/images/printer.gif" /> <A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/66576080.html">Printer Friendly</A> </P><P> </P><P class="section"><IMG class="tool" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/global2005/email.gif" /><A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/email2friend.pl">Email to a Friend</A></p> <DIV class="boxHeader"> RELATED </DIV> <UL class="boxContent"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1213_051213_maya_mural.html">Oldest Known Maya Mural, Tomb Reveal Story of Ancient King (December 13, 2005)</A> <I></I></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0105_060105_maya_writing.html">Earliest Maya Writing Found in Guatemala, Researchers Say (January 5, 2006)</A> <I></I></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/">Genographic Project: Atlas of the Human Journey</A> <I></I></LI> </UL> </DIV> <P></p> <P></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/85416C72-9F12-411B-92DF-7711E4C6D0FA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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