St. Mary's University Gold & Blue | Spring 2013

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Unearthing a Warrior Queen by Nicolette Good

Olivia Navarro-Farr, Ph.D. (B.A. ’98), and a team of archaeologists made a career-defining discovery this past summer: In a collapsed chamber in Guatemala was the tomb of Lady K’abel, a powerful Maya queen who ruled the ancient city of El Perú-Waka’ with her husband more than 1,300 years ago.


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