<\/p>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-26-1024x669.png\")
This is not the first mortuary cave discovered in Coahuila. There have been several. The most famous is the Candelaria Cave, investigated in the 1950s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In these mortuary caves, the nomads would wrap their dead in fabrics and lay them in the cave, along with various objects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This latest discovery was in the Ocampo National Protected Area in northern Coahuila. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
INAH, the Instituto Nacional de Antropolog\u00eda e Historia<\/em>, received reports of looting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So INAH went to investigate with the help of the Comisi\u00f3n Nacional de \u00c1reas Naturales Protegidas <\/em>(Conanp) and the Asociaci\u00f3n Coahuilense de Espeleolog\u00eda<\/em> (the Coahuila Association of Speleology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The team found this hole and went down it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n They descended this small hole into a vertical shaft (less than 2 feet wide), At that level they found another vertical shaft. They lowered themselves down that shaft about 26 feet. At that level was the burial chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chamber had apparently already been looted and artifacts removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There were scattered human bones though and fragments of fabric. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They gathered the bones, apparently belonging to 17 persons: men, women and children. There were 12 complete skulls, including 5 of children. They are estimated to be at least 500 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They found 15 textile fragments, from 4 types of mats. (Mats were used to place the dead).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is a photo of one of these fabric fragments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bones and textile fragments were taken to the Museo Regional de la Laguna<\/em> in Torreon, Coahuila, for safekeeping and investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here<\/a> for a July 1st bulletin in Spanish about the cave, click here<\/a> or here<\/a> for articles in English about it; with photos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent discovery in northern Mexico revealed a mortuary cave in which pre-Hispanic nomads buried their dead. This discovery was in Coahuila, a state that borders the U.S., across from Texas. This is not the first mortuary cave discovered in … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coahuila#\/media\/File:Coahuila_in_Mexico_(location_map_scheme).svg\")
lowering themselves approximately 13 feet to the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n