Sentence examples for cenote from inspiring English sources

In 1904 Edward Herbert Thompson, an American who had bought the entire site, began dredging the cenote; his discovery of skeletons and sacrificial objects confirmed the legend.

Cenote, (from Maya dz'onot), natural well or reservoir, common in the Yucatán Peninsula, formed when a limestone surface collapses, exposing water underneath.

At Chichén Itzá, in order to obtain rain, victims were hurled into a deep natural well (cenote) together with copper, gold, and jade offerings.

The city was walled and built around a large well (cenote).

Stone's mentor, the legendary cave diver Sheck Exley, retrieved forty corpses from diving sites in Florida alone, then drowned in a Mexican cenote in 1994.

Fleeting glimpse of an old man with his burro laden with plastic milk containers filled from some secret cenote.

The best scenes, and they're worth waiting for, are shot at the bottom of a cenote where human sacrifices are thought to have been thrown: the divers, using a light developed for deep-sea exploration, discover a grisly yet stately ossuary under 100 feet of water.

(Turrell also created a light installation inside a cenote for the occasion).

The A.P. reports that Mr. Calderón also straps on scuba tanks to lead Mr. Greenberg into a sinkhole lake, known as a cenote, in the Yucatán and helps a Lacandon Indian paddle a boat down a jungle river.

The untouched rooms we plan to excavate will reveal another side to the ceremonial story and tie in to what we find in the cenote.

Intriguingly, Thompson described a 14-foot-layer of blue sediment at the bottom of the well, called the Sacred Cenote.