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Word: kukulkan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 " of the Mayas ; a sacred well, 150 feet across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Digging in Yucatan | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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