Hidden 500-Year-Old Relics Unearthed by Two Adventurous Spelunkers in Remote Mexican Cave—What Secrets Do They Hold?
The “Exciting And Incredible” Discovery Of Centuries-Old Relics Inside Mexico’s Tlayócoc Cave
Katiya Pavlova/National Institute of Anthropology and HistoryA portion of the vast interior of Tlayócoc cave.
According to a statement from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the objects were found at Tlayócoc Cave by Russian speleologist Yekaterina Katiya Pavlova and her guide Adrián Beltrán Dimas. It’s likely that no one had ventured deeply into the cave for 500 years, though locals use it as a resource for water and bat guano for their gardens.
Dimas and Pavlova, who has been exploring and mapping caves for six years, trekked far into the cave, navigating through narrow passageways and pools of water. While taking a break at one point, they suddenly noticed a collection of objects nearby — which, initially, Pavlova angrily dismissed as trash that had just recently been thrown there by someone.
Then Pavlova realized that she and Dimas had stumbled upon something much more spectacular: a collection of 14 artifacts that had seemingly been left in the cave some 500 years ago.
“It was very exciting and incredible,” she said. “[W]e were lucky here.”
Katiya Pavlova/National Institute of Anthropology and HistoryOne of the centuries-old objects that was recently uncovered inside Tlayócoc Cave.
After photographing the objects, Pavlova and Dimas contacted the National Institute of Anthropology and History to take a closer look at the site.
The 14 Artifacts Found In Tlayócoc Cave And How They May Have Once Been Used
Archaeologists, alongside a local historian, made the long trek to Tlayócoc Cave to examine the objects that Pavlova and Dimas had discovered.
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