The mysteries of the Copan tomb

In 1993 archaelogists discovered a magnificent tomb in the Honduran city complex of Copán. Inside the tomb they found the remains of a person covered in red cinnabar and surrounded with shell and jade ornaments. Around the human remains were burnt offerings of birds, turtles and fish. Due to the things she was buried with the archaeologists think that these were the remains of an important woman. She was either a ruler, or the wife or mother of a ruler, of a group of people who lived at Copán called the Maya.