Word: quirigua
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...seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor-Vat in French Indo-China. The Mayas of what are now Guatemala, British Honduras and Yucatan, he says, could never have evolved the controversial earth-monster of Quirigua from native American animals; therefore this monster must be the makara, a legendary beast, part crocodile, part elephant, evolved by sculptors in Asiatic India...
Continued explorations at Copan and Quirigua in Guatemala and Honduras show that the southern branch of the Maya civilization not only antedated the Yucatan development by more than 1,000 years, but was superior culturally and artistically...
Guatemala. At Quirigua, many remarkable monoliths elaborately carved, and huge statues of turtles and other animals were found by Profs. William Gates and J. J. Waterman, American experts in charge of archeological work for the Guatemalan Government. On some of the monuments the figures are all male; on others, all female. There is an entire absence of representation of weapons of war, indicating the advanced and peaceful state of culture. The United Fruit Company, which has big plantations throughout the region, is helping to protect the Guatemala ruins...
Beside this collection, an interesting set of articles of dress and about five hundred photographs have been brought from the highlands of Guatemala by Mr. Gordon of the Museum. In past years he has been engaged in excavations in the ruined cities of Guatemala, Quirigua and San Augustin, and Copan in Honduras, and during the past winter he has been living in the highlands, among the remnants of the Maya race, the founders of these cities, in order to discover traditions in regard to the history of the cities and the reason they were deserted. These attempts have been without...
...Gordon, who was sent in November by the 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...
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