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...Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...
...Tikal, in Guatemala, may have had a population of 200,000 or more; its ruins cover several hundred acres, and include five temples, one of them over 200 feet high. Copan, in Honduras, has within its inner group of buildings a sizable stadium, sculptured stairways, terraces, pyramids. At Chichen Itza and Uxmal in Yucatan were colonnades, palaces, and a series of stone courts on which a basketball-like game was played...
...earth trod by barefoot Mexicans and their mincing burros, stretched the remains of the Toltec capital. To complete its excavation would take at least another ten years. But the Tula find already ranked historically as the most important since Carnegie Institution scientists unearthed the famed Mayan temples of Chichen Itza in Yucatan 15 years...
Culled by four hundred and more expeditions, the display will include gold, jade, textiles, and ceramics from the Americas. Among other objects never before publicly exhibited are the jade and metal findings dredged from the Sacred Well at Chicken Itza in Yucetan...
...Giro Over Mexico. Down upon a terrace of the famed Chichen-Itza ruins in Yucatan, where the Carnegie Foundation has an outpost, plumped an autogiro piloted by Capt. Lewis A. ("Lon") Yancey. In less than two hours he had windmilled over the mountains from Merida, a journey which takes most of a day by narrow-gauge rail and wagon. Having flown the first 'giro to Cuba and thence to Mexico, Pilot Yancey visited Mexico City before heading for the U. S. Pacific Coast...