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...team of Harvard-led archeologists in Guatemala have discovered a section of what they say appears to be the oldest intact example of Mayan wall murals...
Tommy's Mexican Restaurant is a homey little joint with red vinyl booths and murals of Mayan ruins. Papa Thomas Bermejo greets customers, while daughter Candy punches the cash register and son Julio presides behind the bar. The roar of ice crushers blends with mariachi brass. The waitress, in a worn T shirt, scuttles about at 78 R.P.M., hoisting platters of sizzling enchiladas...
...That spectacle alone shows how much Mexico has changed since Marcos - the pseudonym of a non-Indian former university instructor born Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - led a few hundred Mayan Indian guerrillas in the southern state of Chiapas into a brief armed uprising in the first days of 1994. Back then, the National Palace and most other governmental offices were still occupied by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico for close on seven decades. But its hold on power was already slipping, and an insurgency invoking the name of a the fabled and beloved early-20th-century...
...election, Fox's people have been sending out feelers to the Zapatistas about the prospects for resolving the conflict in Chiapas. And remember, Subcomandante Marcos is the front man and voice of the movement, but the EZLN [Emiliano Zapata Front for National Liberation] is run by a council of Mayan tribal chieftains. Since Fox sent these feelers out, most of the other people on the Zapatista council have been willing to give the new president a chance. In fact there was a break within the ranks of the EZLN on this question, and we didn't see anything of Marcos...
...field, the students are first trained in different methodologies of archaeology and how to approach the past. Then they put their knowledge to use on Mayan digs...