EL TRAPICHE
An archaeological site with a cemetery in which 30 nobles were found buried on site
Declared a National Monument, the El Trapiche archaeological site is one of the first Mayan sites to have been inhabited in the region, as early as 1,200 BC. The eruption of the Ilopango volcano in 250 AD forced the site to be emptied of its population. A cemetery was found with around thirty people in a pit, all nobles of the region. The excavations did not turn up many artefacts. The only significant one is a fragment bearing Mayan inscriptions that may correspond to a month in the Mayan calendar, the only one of its kind in El Salvador.
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