Mayan ornaments, made from shells and used as ear-rings and on necklaces. These artefacts are from an undetermined period. The Maya were an ancient Me

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Mayan ornaments, made from shells and used as ear-rings and on necklaces. These artefacts are from an undetermined period. The Maya were an ancient Mesoamerican civilization that inhabited southern Mexico and nearby areas for thousands of years from the second millennium BC to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Photographed at a museum in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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