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...Exploration in Maya Cities" was the subject of a lecture delivered in Pierce Hall last evening by Franz Blom, first year, graduate student in the Division of Anthropolgy and former inspector of archaeological monuments for the 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...
Latin America. The Carnegie Institute has received a five-year concession from the Guatemalan Government to carry on explorations in the Peten district, contining Tikal, perhaps the oldest of the Maya cities (200 A. D.). Dr. Sylvanus Morley will soon return to Central America to take up this work. American archeologists are in charge of the museum at Guatemala City...
...Herbert J. Spinden, penetrating south from Yucatan, found outposts of ancient cultures allied to the Maya, in eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, and as far south as Costa Rica. There are fortified villages, tremendous walls, pottery, statues and stone corn-grinding machines on hilltops, possibly pointing to a curious cult of " corn worship...
Nearly equal in importance with the Egyptian discoveries are the new findings in Yucatan. The civilization of the Maya race, covering at various times a large part of the Yucatan peninsula, Guatemala, Salvador and northern Honduras, has been known for over half a century by archaeologists to have reached the highest level of culture of any of the ancient peoples of the New World. It is thought to have begun about the first century before Christ, reaching its zenith from 400-600 A. D., and to have flourished at intervals until about 1400 A. D. The Spaniards found these sites...
...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...