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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2002

Hotels and resorts on the Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico are pumping raw sewage into underground caves that contain Mayan artifacts, according to those who have explored them.

The caves are actually underwater rivers that were formed over thousands of years. Divers have explored more than 60 miles of an estimated 200-mile system of passages and have found ancestral remains and artifacts.

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Divers Discover Maya Relics in Caves That Became Rivers (The New York Times 5/21)
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