Body of schoolgirl discovered in Brown"s Town

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ST ANN, Jamaica — The Brown’s Town Police are now carrying out investigations into the death of a tenth-grade student of the Brown’s Town High School.  The body of 16-year-old Tashiek Nugent was reportedly discovered in the Addison Park area early Tuesday morning (December 31).The police have not yet determined the cause of death of the teen who is from Sturge Town, a community outside of Brown’s Town.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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Body of schoolgirl discovered in Brown"s Town

Body of schoolgirl discovered in Brown"s Town

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 | 3:36 PM

ST ANN, Jamaica — The Brown’s Town Police are now carrying out investigations into the death of a tenth-grade student of the Brown’s Town High School.  The body of 16-year-old Tashiek Nugent was reportedly discovered in the Addison Park area early Tuesday morning (December 31).The police have not yet determined the cause of death of the teen who is from Sturge Town, a community outside of Brown’s Town.

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Mayan frieze discovered in Guatemala

8 August 2013 Last updated at 13:39 The figures are richly decorated with quetzal feathers and jade Archaeologists working in a Mayan pyramid in Guatemala have discovered an “extraordinary” stucco sculpture depicting gods and Mayan leaders.

The frieze, which is eight metres long and two metres wide (26ft by six feet), shows three figures decorated with quetzal feathers and jade sitting atop the head of a mountain spirit.

It was found at the pre-Columbian archaeological site of Holmul.

Site director Francisco Estrada-Belli called it it a once-in-a lifetime find.

Snake Lords v Tikal

The frieze was found below a 20m-high (65ft) pyramid which was built over it in the 8th Century.

“The preservation is wonderful because it was very carefully packed with dirt before they started building over it,” Mr Estrada-Belli said.

The sculpture is believed to depict the crowning of a new Mayan leader in about AD590.

It also bears an inscription made up of 30 glyphs, which was deciphered by Harvard University expert Alex Tokovinine.

The inscription says that the carving was commissioned by the ruler of a nearby city-state, Ajwosaj ChanK’inich.

The archaeologists say the frieze and its inscription shed light on a classical period of Maya rule in which two rival kingdoms, Tikal and the Snake Lords, fought for control of the region.

Mr Tokovinine says the inscription suggests that Ajwosaj, who was a vassal of the Snake Lords, came to the site to re-establish the local political and religious order after Holmul, which had supported the Tikal kingdom, had switched sides.

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Mayan frieze discovered in Guatemala