The Mayans believed that vessels had a kind of spirit and they broke most of their pots when offering them as sacrifices or in burials. You can see a possible "spirit hole" in one of the pots in the previous photograph, however, this pot was found intact. Says photographer, Tony Beeman, it is "pretty crazy to find artifacts that you normally see in museums still in their original settings."

Image Courtesy of Beemans / Tony Beeman