Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Dr. Spinden's latest research work on this problem has been done in the Museum at the University on the basis of voluminous photographs, and not in Central America as recently announced in the New York Times...
...Mayan calendar," said Dr. Spinden, "passed out of use in 1561 when the Mayan books were destroyed in the Spanish Inquisition. At that time it had functioned for more than 2000 years without losing a day. The dates left on Mayan monuments have puzzled students for many years, and their final solution along the lines laid down by the American school is a distinct triumph over European archaeologists, who have approached the question through their knowledge of the Aztecs. It is now possible to correlate every date in the Mayan calendar with the corresponding date in the Georgian calendar...
Instrumental in bringing these Churches together to discuss the calendar was the League of Nations...
...surface it is a small matter which has brought the Roman Catholics, the Anglicans and the Orthodox (Russian and Greek) Churches together this week. It is the matter of the calendar. Representatives of the Pope, of the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Ecumenical Patriarch are sitting together at Geneva for the first time since 1453. All three Churches are now deciding whether they can adopt a fixed date for Easter...
Evidences of a highly developed state of civilization were found in the hieroglyphic system and calendar of the Maya people. Their public buildings were uniquely decorated with the heads and coiling bodies of snakes. The films, which showed principally the ruins of the ancient temples, are the property of the Mexican government and have never before been exhibited outside of Mexico...