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1,600 year-old skelelton’s teeth adorned with gem stones

Saturday, 09 July 2016 9:05 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 09 July 2016 9:06 AM ]

Handout photo taken on April 4, 2016 and released by the Mexican National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) showing the skeleton of a woman who lived aproximatly 1600 years ago in San Juan Evangelista town, Teotihuacan, Mexico. AFP

Adorning teeth with jewels and precious gems is popular among youngsters nowadays. But a new discovery shows that the practice can be traced back a thousand years.

Mexican archeologists have discovered a one-thousand six-hundred year-old skeleton of an upper-class woman in the central part of the country.

The skeleton’s teeth were covered with mineral stones. The woman was between 35 and 40 years old when she died.

She also wore a prosthetic lower tooth made of a green stone. Experts say findings show the woman was foreign to the region and was probably from the southern part of Meso-america, not the central region where she was found.

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