For years natives of southern Mexico have told stories of monstrous stone heads buried in the earth. In 1938 Matthew William Stirling, heading a joint expedition of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society, unearthed in Veracruz a carved stone head six feet high. This year, hacking around in the Tabasco jungle, he discovered five more heads, several bigger than the Veracruz find. Last week the National Geographic Society released a picture of one of them, estimated to weigh 20 tons or more. It is 8 ft. i in. high, 20 ft....
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