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...investigations of racial types and mixtures in Yucatan is part of an extensive survey being made by the anthropology department in North Africa, Central America, and Mexico. Dr. Williams' recent investigations were made in the neighborhood of the ancient city of Chichen-Itza, which is being reconstructed by the Carnegie Institution...
...Yucatan, the district court took action against Edward H. Thomson, for many years U. S. consul at Merida, who lately returned to the Peabody Museum (Boston) with, a vast collection of Mayan artifacts taken from the sacred well at Chichen Itza (TIME...
Basketball was originally a religious sport and had its beginnings a thousand years ago in the limestone pits and courts of Yucatan, according to Dr. S. G. Morley '07, who for three years has been directing excavations at Chichea Itza, a city of the ancient Maya Indians in northeast Yucatan under the auspices of the Carnegie Institute of Washington...
Edward Herbert ("Don Eduardo") Thompson, excavator of the sacred well of Yum Chac, the Rain God, and many another spot in Chichen Itza, the Mayan Capital (TIME, May 17, BOOKS), has pushed his investigations inland to Coba, an older, provincial Mayan city [visited last winter by Dr. Gann (TIME, April 26)]. The expedition found unknown ruins called by local bush-dwellers "Macanxoc" meaning "you can't read it," ruins of what was doubtless Coba's religious centre...
...have been associated with worship of Kukulcan. God of the Air. There is one more possibility which suggests itself with much force that this peculiar edifice, like the only other round building now known to be standing in the entire Maya area the so-called Caracol at Chichen Itza was an astronomical observatory. Most of the 30 per cent of the Maya hieroglyphs that have been translated relate to the calendar and astronomy of the ancients or to methods of counting. We realize how advanced was the science of these first Americans when we consider the fact...