Archaeologists have discovered a wooden Maya canoe in southern Mexico, believed to be over 1,000 years old.
Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a freshwater pool near the ruined Maya city of Chichen Itza.
Mexico's antiquities institute (Inah) says it may have been used to extract water or deposit ritual offers.
The rare find came during construction work on a new tourist railway known as the Maya Train.
In a statement, the Inah said archaeologists had also discovered ceramics, a ritual knife and painted murals of hands on a rockface in the pool, known as a cenote.
Experts from Paris's Sorbonne University have been helping with pin-pointing the canoe's exact age and type, the statement said. A 3D model of it would also be made to allow replicas to be made, and to facilitate further study, it added.
