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Naj Tunich is a natural cave and an important archaeological site in Guatemala.The discovery of the Naj Tunich caves in Poptún southern Peten Guatemala in 1979 initiated the interest for Cave Archeology among Mayanists. Naj Tunich is the preeminent of Maya cave sites boasting the most cave architecture ever found the only elite masonry tombs reported from caves and the largest (and most exceptional) corpus of Maya cave inscriptions and paintings.