Word: mayans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Dr. Spinden's latest research work on this problem has been done in the Museum at the University on the basis of voluminous photographs, and not in Central America as recently announced in the New York Times...
Just as European tradition has curbed any distinctly American phase in Art, so has the recent interest in Egyptian treasure held attention from valuable discoveries of ancient Mexican work. Friezes, bas reliefs, curious pottery and many other Mayan and Aztec antiquities collected by Francisco Cornejo are to be brought to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum...
...well-organized group of scientists and engineers, including Dr. Morley, John F. Barry, William Barclay Parsons, Dr. Marshall H. Saville of Columbia and Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution, is surveying the field preliminary to a more exhaustive explor ation. Restoration and preservation of the astonishing Mayan architecture is the prime task in view...
...bottom of this well have been found human skeletons - the most beautiful maidens were hurled to death here at annual festivals to propitiate the rain gods - and extraordinary relics of jade, mosaics, pottery, weapons, balls of copal- offerings brought to this Mecca by pilgrims from all over the Mayan world...
...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...