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...certain that there are in this strip important Maya ruins unvisited by archaeologists as men can be certain of things they have not seen. Rumors of such cities have repeatedly come from the natives who are the descendants of the race that built Tulum, Chichen Itza and Copan...
...government of Mexico. Mr. Blom's lecture dealt with the recent discoveries which have been made in Yucatan and Central America, where many traces of ancient civilizations have been found. The lecture was illustrated by three reels of moving pictures, showing the ruins of the Maya cities of Chichen-itza, Uxmal, and Palenque. As an introduction Mr. Blom described the ancient inhabitants of these cities. The men painted their bodies and festooned their hair...
...chief centers of the Mayas, now attracting public interest, are Chichen Itza, Uxmal and Mayapan, forming a league which ruled Yucatan about 1000-1300 A. D. At Uxmal is the House of the Governor 330 feet long, the most imposing building of the region. At Chichen Itza are a pyramidal castle 130 feet high; temples to Kukulkan, the chief Maya divinity; a civic center two miles long, surrounded by several square miles of massive buildings, terraces, etc.; a large enclosed court in which a game like basketball was played; life-size statues of Chac-Mool, the "Tiger King...
...best collection of these relics in the United States is at the Peabody Museum, Boston. At its height the Mayan race probably numbered several million people, and the population of Chichen Itza was about 500,000. Their decorative arts show exquisite workmanship. Astronomy and mathematics were highly developed. They had an elaborate picture writing, much of which has been deciphered, giving the clue to many dates in inscriptions and chronicles. Their calendar was the most complex and exact known in the ancient world, with a century of 52 years, and a year of 18 months of 20 days each...
...most important of the recent gifts is a series of colored copies of the mural paintings in the Temple of Tigers at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, reproduced by Miss A. C. Breton, and presented by Miss Breton and Miss Mary--Ware...