Skeleton with Stone-Encrusted Mineral Teeth Found in Mexico Ancient Ruins Abigail Beall - Mailonline
go to original July 8, 2016

The woman wore a prosthetic lower tooth made of a green stone called serpentine. Her cranium was elongated by being compressed in a 'very extreme' manner, a technique commonly used in the southern part of Mesoamerica, not the central region where she was found. (Agence France-Presse)

Decorating teeth with jewels may be popular among some groups today, but it seems the idea was around in Mexico more than a thousand years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered the skeleton of an upper-class woman whose skull was intentionally deformed and her teeth encrusted with mineral stones.

The type of jewels found in her teeth show the woman was foreign to the region, and her skeleton was more deformed than any found before.

The body was discovered near Mexico's ancient ruins of Teotihuacan, at a town called San Juan Evangelista.

The woman, between 35 and 40 years old when she died, was buried with 19 jars that served as offerings, the National Anthropology and History Institute said.

Her cranium was elongated by being compressed in a 'very extreme' manner - a technique commonly used in the southern part of Mesoamerica, not the central region where she was found, the institute said.

The site is thought to be a burial ground.

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