Discovered a thousand year old gold grave in Panama

An archaeological group has discovered a grave site of Cocle culture that existed between 700 and 1,000 AD in the archaeological site of El Caño, in Nata district, about 180km west of Panama.

In the Dec. 15 speech of El Caño, President Julia Mayo, after excavating at a depth of 5m on an area of ​​100sq.m, scientists found out around the burial site just found. are basalt walls, where there are many statues of people tied up. Below are five gold-clad individual tombs with bones, precious stones and worship objects such as incense bowls, plates and many bows and arrows.

The sixth tomb alone has 25 corpses, including a child corpse, which is considered to be powerful figures in society at that time.

Archaeologists claim that this is the most important discovery in the past 70 years in this Central American country, especially all found artifacts provide data and information about the era at the time.

Until now, the artifacts of cultures existed before the Spanish colonists came to occupy Panama lacked this factor.

El Caño archaeological site is located near Conte, which is considered the burial center of the senior dignitaries of Cocle society.

After the discovery, scientists hope to continue to gain more information about Cocle culture whose origins are the original Panamanians who lived in the area 1000 years ago.