Explore: Cacao Shells

known as cocoa (/ˈkoʊ.koʊ/) or cacao (/kəˈkaʊ/), is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a

seeds of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). They are usually fermented to develop the flavor, then dried, cleaned, and roasted. The shell is removed to

Amalda cacao is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae. The length of the shell attains 75 mm, its diameter 40

frequently counterfeited by filling empty cacao shells with dirt or mud. Cacao was commonly drunk as cacahuatl, "cacao water", and was the beverage of warriors

is a pale-yellow, edible fat extracted from the cocoa bean (Theobroma cacao). It is used to make chocolate, as well as some ointments, toiletries, and

to all kinds of man-made puddles—irrigation channels, bamboo stumps, cacao shells, the bottoms of canoes. The water can be clean or polluted, in sun or

cuneiform, with many modifications to Sumerian orthography. c. 1900 BC: Cacao is domesticated by the Mokaya in Guatemala. The Harappa Torso is now kept

king sitting upon a jaguar throne. An alternative name is the Temple of Ah Cacao, after the ruler buried in the temple. Temple I is a typically Petén-styled

a tomb was found with stone and ceramic artifacts, as well as cacao and Spondylus shells. Another related site is San Isidro, in Peru, close to Jaén (Jaén

to Conus cacao. The Conus Biodiversity website "Lautoconus mercator mercator cacao". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 17 January 2019. Cone Shells – Knights