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Their peculiar architecture, embodying their cosmogonic and religious notions, is easily recognized in the ancient architectural monuments of India, Chaldea, Egypt, and Greece; in the great pyramid of Ghizeh, in the famed Parthenon of ...
Their peculiar architecture, embodying their cosmogonic and religious notions, is easily recognized in the ancient architectural monuments of India, Chaldea, Egypt, and Greece; in the great pyramid of Ghizeh, in the famed Parthenon of ...
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I reserve the teachings that may be. gathered from the study of Maya monuments for a future occasion; restricting my observations now principally to the Memorial Hall at Chlchen, dedicated to the manes of Prince Coh by his sisterwife ...
I reserve the teachings that may be. gathered from the study of Maya monuments for a future occasion; restricting my observations now principally to the Memorial Hall at Chlchen, dedicated to the manes of Prince Coh by his sisterwife ...
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In order to help in the verification of the facts herein presented, I have illustrated this book with photographs taken in site, drawings and plans according to actual, careful surveys, made by me, of the monuments.
In order to help in the verification of the facts herein presented, I have illustrated this book with photographs taken in site, drawings and plans according to actual, careful surveys, made by me, of the monuments.
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That some of the ruined monuments of Yucatan are very ancient, much anterior to the Christian era, notwithstanding the opinion to the contrary of the self-styled authorities on Maya civilization. 3. That nothing now stands in the way of ...
That some of the ruined monuments of Yucatan are very ancient, much anterior to the Christian era, notwithstanding the opinion to the contrary of the self-styled authorities on Maya civilization. 3. That nothing now stands in the way of ...
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... unmindful, likewise, of these words of Lizana: “ That when the Spaniards came to this country, notwithstanding that some of the monuments appeared new, as if they had been. built only twenty years, the Indians did 'not live in them, ...
... unmindful, likewise, of these words of Lizana: “ That when the Spaniards came to this country, notwithstanding that some of the monuments appeared new, as if they had been. built only twenty years, the Indians did 'not live in them, ...
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LXHI Javelin Head and Arrow Points found with the Charred | 159 |
Portrait of Queen M60 From a demirelief adorning | 166 |
Portrait of Bishop Lands second Bishop of Yucatan | 169 |
LXVHI Mezzorelievo in Stucco on the Frieze of the Temple | 197 |
Fresco Painting in the Funeral Chamber of Prince Cohs | 222 |
The Lord of the Yucatan Forests From life | 236 |
Part of Facade of the Sanctuary at Uxmal Cosmic | 256 |
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