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...film, The Passion of the Christ, was spoken entirely in the dead languages of Latin and Aramaic.? Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sunday?s Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue:? Maya.? That's the sole language of Apocalypto, the adventure epic set in Pre-Columbian Mexico that Gibson is currently shooting on the edge of southern Mexico's rainforests, in the state of Veracruz. ""I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre," Gibson told TIME, which was given an exclusive peek at the filming for a story to appear in a forthcoming...
CORRECTION: The Nov. 15, 2005 news article "Profs E-mail Critical of Pres." incorrectly attributed remarks to Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art Thomas B. F. Cummins saying that he had not signed a statement critical of University President Lawrence H. Summers. In fact, no Crimson reporter ever spoke with Professor Cummins regarding the article...
EDITORS' NOTE: The news article "Profs E-mail Critical of Pres." published yesterday included information attributed to a conversation between The Crimson and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art Thomas B. F. Cummins...
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies Gary Urton and first-year archaeology graduate student Carrie J. Brezine used a new database to study patterns on the strings, known as khipu. The strings were used as a recording system in the Inca Empire, which reached its height in the late 1400s in what is now Peru...
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art Thomas B. F. Cummins said the new research could dispel the notion that the Inca had only a primitive recording system...