2,300-year-old conical tomb found in Mexico


A conical tomb from around 300 B.C. has been discovered in the town of Tepeyahualco, Puebla, southeastern Mexico. Tepeyahualco is four miles south of the archaeological site of Cantona, a pre-Hispanic settlement that was first populated as early as 1000 B.C. and grew into a fortified urban center of regional importance before it was abandoned for unknown reasons around 1050 A.D. 

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