Discovered a 1,000-year-old baseball player

Recently, a group of Mexican archaeologists have found the statue of an intact baseball player, 1.75m high, dating back over 1,000 years, deep underground 1.5m at a stadium on Teul Hill in Zacatecas state , about 800km north of Mexico City.

The announcement of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said that at the end of 2010, also in this place, Zacatecas state researchers have found a similar statue but lost their heads.

Archaeologists conduct excavations of the statue
(Photo: Mizamora)

According to archaeologists, the defect of the statue may be due to the impact of some powerful earthquake in the past.

INAH expert also said that Teul is one of the few places in Mexico that is always inhabited during the period from 200 BC to 1531 and today becomes the symbol of the people of Zacatecas state. In addition, this place goes into the national history as one of the places with the tradition of fighting against foreign invaders since the Spanish colonial invasion since the 16th century.

Finding two statues of baseball athletes, a sport enjoyed by ancient Mexicans, made the art and culture activists think of two legendary figures in the ancient book Popol Vuh. considered the Bible of the Maya tribe (from the 3rd century BC to the 15th century), according to which the Maya described the process of forming the universe through the supernatural wisdom of the two main characters, Hunahpú and Ixbalanqué