https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15503013/tomb-cloud-people-discovery-Mexico.html
Lost tomb of the mysterious ‘cloud people’ unearthed after 1,400 years in ‘discovery of the decade’
By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
Published: 14:57 EST, 27 January 2026 | Updated: 17:14 EST, 27 January 2026
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Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 1,400-year-old tomb in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca that had been lost to history.
The stone structure, built by the Zapotec culture, known as Be’ena’a, or ‘The Cloud People’, is adorned with sculptures, murals and carved symbols that suggest ritual significance.
The Zapotec believed their ancestors descended from the clouds and that, in death, their souls returned to the heavens as spirits.
At the entrance sits a massive carved owl, its open beak revealing the face of a Zapotec lord, a symbol the National Institute of Anthropology and History said represented death and power.
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Another demonstration of how little we humans “know”.
I’d never heard of these people. Nor, do we know much about them or why they “disappeared” as a civilization.
Interesting to me is the “ancestors descended from the clouds”. Is that more alien conspiracy theory? Interesting in that it keeps coming up over and over again.
Sigh!
Anyway a great read and I hope some more dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) comes out of the research effort.
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