Archeologists found three jade-inlaid teeth in a museum collection. These teeth show that Maya children used dental inlays as a form of art.

A Maya child, as young as seven years old, has been found to have worn jade “tooth gems,” a discovery that sheds new light on ancient practices. Archaeologists have long known that adults in the Maya ...

Archaeologists already knew that adult Maya had tooth inlays, but this is some of the first evidence that children also had tooth bling. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...