together to explore, uncover, protect, and make available 
to the visitor the truly sarvelous productions of ancient 
_ Mayan genius. 
The reading otis cates, the first etep in solving 
the problems of history 1s, however, unfortunately not 
an open Sesame to the whole story of these monuments of 
an ancient civilisation. Tach of the great carved btones 
ls a pheaian thats than the Egyptian sphinx . ‘There seems. 
to be no short-cut to the interpretation of the story 
and areheology must take up and bear the burden of the 
_researeh which is to gradually fill out the outline already | 
GPawn 
Ve are at liberty to conjecture that a thousand or 
more years ago certain groups of the Ameriean race began 
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to rise distinetly above the general level of barbarism and 
to commence the constriction of imposing stone buildings 
and the carving of monuments devoted to history and the worship 
