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'Trash' Found Deep Inside a Mexican Cave Turns Out to Be 500-Year-Old Artifacts From a Little-Known Culture

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When two spelunkers investigated what they thought was trash in a cave in Mexico, they discovered more than a dozen artifacts dating back centuries.

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What at first glance seemed like ordinary debris in a mountain cave in Mexico turned out to be an archaeological find with artifacts that are more than half a millennium old.

The two cavers may have been the first visitors to the flights in the past half a millennium.

·Budapest, Hungary
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Cavers discover artifacts of extinct culture in Mexico's Tlajococ caveArtifacts of the Tlacotepehua culture, which disappeared more than 500 years ago, have been discovered in Mexico's Tlajococ cave. They were probably used in fertility rituals.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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What started as a routine caving exploration turned into one of the most interesting discoveries in recent history...

·Croatia
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Live Science broke the news in United States on Monday, May 26, 2025.
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