MULTIMEDIA: Video

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Excerpt from the 1993 National Geographic Explorer documentary film titled, "Journey through the Underworld"

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Bloodletting Chamber

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Transcription:

High on a ledge the explorers come to a single small room. Within this sanctum - a kind of altar. At the altar's center is a piece of slate, carved in the likeness of a giant stingray spine. At it's base - a blade made of obsidian. This may be where the Maya came to offer their blood to the gods.

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