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...Peabody Museum to explore the ruined cities of Central America, has just returned. He spent two months in Honduras and three months in Guatemala. The principal part of his work was the exploration of the ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala, the most important ruined city of the ancient Maya civilization. It is buried in a dense tropical jungle through which roads had to be cut to reach the site. The most remarkable of the relics are the stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations at Quirigua Mr. Gordon discovered two new monoliths, each...
...collection of casts of inscriptions on the stone stairway leading up to the prehistoric temple at Copan, Honduras, has recently been put on exhibition at the Peabody Museum. The inscriptions are similar to those found in the Maya books and probably have a religious significance. The stairway is built of trachite, specimens of which have been in the Museum for some time, and in the debris of the ruins some elaborate statues have been found...
...Lanteru-illustrations of scenes and places famous in Buddhist story. Sumedha. Maya's dream. The Bo-tree temple. The great reliquaries or stupas...
...obtained than from the fabulous accounts of the Spaniards. Yucatan was the centre of a civilization extending north to the Pueblos, and south to the Peruvians. The descendants of this ancient people have so strongly impressed themselves upon the Spaniards as to compel the latter people to learn the Maya language. He pointed out the two theories as to the use of the buildings whose ruins we find upon the terraces; 1st, that they were communal houses like those of the ancient Pueblos; 2d, that they were the official houses of a migratory people. The climate of Yucatan is such...