Photo by Edward H. Thompson 

 PHOTOGRAPH OF A HUMAN HEAD CARVED IN STONE: PORTION OP A RICHEY CARVED 

 WALE SURFACE RECENTEY DISCOVERED AT CHICHEN ITZA 



All the rolls of parchment and books on deerskin and agave paper, all the plans and 

 records and the written lore of the mysterious city, Chichen Itza, were burned by the Span- 

 ish zealot, Bishop de Landa. When he saw the Maya symbols that he could not understand, 

 he concluded that they were signs of a diabolical nature and caused them, together with 

 many other objects containing Maya records, to be destroyed by hre on the public square 

 of the city (see page 599). 



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