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| archaeoligist | one who studies the life and culture of acient people by studying their movments, artifacts, and inscriptions |
| hypothesis | a therory or propisition that has not yet been proven |
| looting | to steal artifacts from an archaeological site |
| replica | a copy of a work of art or other object |
| deciphering | to figure out the meaning of; to translate |
| ritual | a formal, cerimonial act, usually part of a religon |
| symmetry | similarity in form and arrangment of things on opposite sides of a center line |
| sarcophagus | a stone coffin or tomb, often decorated with carvings |
| astronomer | one who studies the stars,m the palnets, and other heavenly bodies |
| reef | a ridge of coral or sand near the surface of the water |
| trawler | a boat for fishing by dragging heavy nets along the sea bottem |
| glyphs | a symbolic charactor |
| stela | an upright stone slab |
| bends | pain or paralys caused by nitrogin bubbles in the blood |
| emblem glyph | a glyph that represents a maya city |
| curio | any unusual artical |
| authentic | real |
| poultice | a soft moist mixture put on the body as medician |
| cenote | a natural well |
| foil | to prevent from being sucsesful |
| fate | the end result or consequence; the outcome |
