Dave Pentecost tells Boing Boing,
I'm adding to the media frenzy surrounding the San Bartolo mural announcement today ("Sistine Chapel of the Maya") with a "you are there" video of the dig that discovered it.
I was in the tunnels, inside a pyramid, for five weeks as they discovered and cleaned the murals. In the press coverage they are using the phrase "blood sacrifice" to refer to the graphic penis perforation, with six-foot spears, that four figures are performing in the mural.
The video was shot and edited, and the music composed in Garageband, in the jungle east of Uaxactun, Guatemala. It's in iPod format – one of the oldest art objects in the hemisphere playable on one of the newest. My thanks to Bill Saturno and the whole San Bartolo team for allowing me to be part of the astonishing discovery.
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