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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...
...Than whom no greater was in Yucatan...
Last week's issue of TIME told how Senator Capper of Kansas is trying to make divorce more difficult in these States; also how the law-makers of Fiume, Uruguay, Yucatan, are doing their best to make divorce as easy as possible...
...expedition from the National Geographic Society and the Carnegie Institution is about to undertake a survey of Yucatan to discover the lost cities of the early Mayan civilization in America...
Mexican Consuls in the United States have been instructed to make public the fact that in Yucatan divorces can be obtained with and without cause at a maximum cost...