By Joel Day Archaeologists were amazed to find a Mayan ‘death mask’ in the tomb of a long-lost ‘Great King’. The Mayans used to live in a place called Mesoamerica, which is now part of Central and Northern America. Scientists have found signs that people lived in Belize around 1800 BC. We don’t know much about why their society ended, but they left behind lots of items that help us understand who they were. One object that was found interested the researchers – an ancient death mask found in Palenque, Mexico. They found it while they were digging at the Temple of Inscriptions, which was built …