Science: Digging in Yucatan

SCIENCE

The Story of a Complete Civilization Is Being Recovered

Archaeology is booming as it never boomed before. Not less than 20 expeditions in every quarter of the globe are digging to unearth new treasuries of human culture. American brains and capital are backing many of these.

Nearly equal in importance with the Egyptian discoveries are the new findings in Yucatan. The civilization of the Maya race, covering at various times a large part of the Yucatan peninsula, Guatemala, Salvador and northern Honduras, has been known for over half a century by archaeologists to have...

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