Word: zaculeu
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Temple Paradise. In Guatemala last week, an expedition financed by the United Fruit Co. was restoring the Mayan city of Zaculeu, near Huehuetenango. Zaculeu's spectacular pyramid temple is surrounded by a diggers' paradise of lesser temples and altars. (Near by is a court for the breakneck religious ball game which Central Americans believe to be the ancestor of basket ball.) Guatemala is dotted with dead stone cities, and United Fruit has promised a five-year program to put them back in shape...
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