Word: mayan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizen. He tools around Palo Alto in a 1936 Mercedes-Benz touring car, or a 1931 Dusenberg (original price: $19,000), lives alone in a bungalow that looks like a highbrow junk pile. Some items: five aquariums for tropical fish, antique Oriental sculpture, a reed organ, a library on Mayan architecture. There, looking like an outsize Dylan Thomas, he delights in cooking dinners (Creole, French, Italian, Scandinavian or Oriental) for as many as 35 guests...
...Modern Mayan...
Those early Mayan archaeological discoveries (Oct. 21) look Frank Lloyd Wright inspired. Of course, no offense intended to either architect...
...Mexico City-based Photographer Juan Guzman, photographing the ancient remnants of Olmec and Mayan culture has been a long labor of love. Making it a vacation and free-time project, he spent nearly two years completing his self-set assignment, traveled by car, private plane, horseback and at times proceeded on foot, machete in hand. Most difficult site was Yaxchilan in the almost inaccessible Chiapas jungle. To get there, Guzman had to fly in, clear the site by hand, wait for days for a break in the rain. For a view of what Guzman brought out, including the first color...
Despite the fabulous wealth already uncovered, archaeologists estimate that only 10% of Mayan ruins and treasures have been found. They also believe that new discoveries from the little known Olmec culture 'might throw a new light on early American history...