Cave Divers Near Tulum Find An 8,000-year-old Human Remains

The discovery was made, according to one archaeologist engaged, in a network of underwater caves flooded during the last Ice Age.

Near the projected Playa del Carmen-Tulum portion of the Maya Train train, a human skeleton thought to be more than 8,000 years old was discovered in an underwater cave, or cenote. According to archaeologist Octavio del Río and diver Peter Broger, they discovered the remains buried beneath dirt in a network of caves that was submerged 8,000 years ago at…