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... building people. Many of the great buildings erected on such pyramidal foundations, at Palenque, Uxmal, and elsewhere in that region, have not disappeared, because they were built of hewn stone laid in mortar. For reasons not difficult ...
... building people. Many of the great buildings erected on such pyramidal foundations, at Palenque, Uxmal, and elsewhere in that region, have not disappeared, because they were built of hewn stone laid in mortar. For reasons not difficult ...
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... Building race, which has been preserved entire, was taken from a mound situated on a knoll (itself artificial apparently) on the summit of a hill, in the Scioto Valley, four miles below Chillicothe. What, save time itself, can have ...
... Building race, which has been preserved entire, was taken from a mound situated on a knoll (itself artificial apparently) on the summit of a hill, in the Scioto Valley, four miles below Chillicothe. What, save time itself, can have ...
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... buildings in which the "perpetual fire" was maintained. Each of their villages was furnished with a sacred building of this kind. They had also peculiarities of social and political organization different from those of other tribes ...
... buildings in which the "perpetual fire" was maintained. Each of their villages was furnished with a sacred building of this kind. They had also peculiarities of social and political organization different from those of other tribes ...
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... building purposes. In one of the mounds opened in the Ohio Valley two chambers were found with remains of the timber ... buildings are peculiar to the ancient Mexicans and Central Americans; that this method of construction, which, with ...
... building purposes. In one of the mounds opened in the Ohio Valley two chambers were found with remains of the timber ... buildings are peculiar to the ancient Mexicans and Central Americans; that this method of construction, which, with ...
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... buildings, and if they were situated in Yucatan, Guatemala, and Southern Mexico, they would never be mistaken for any thing else. The high mounds also in the two regions are remarkably alike. In both cases they are pyramidal in shape ...
... buildings, and if they were situated in Yucatan, Guatemala, and Southern Mexico, they would never be mistaken for any thing else. The high mounds also in the two regions are remarkably alike. In both cases they are pyramidal in shape ...
Inhalt
V MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA | |
VI ANTIQUITY OF THE RUINS | |
VII WHENCE CAME THAT OLD CIVILIZATION? | |
VIII AMERICAN ANCIENT HISTORY | |
IX THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION | |
X ANCIENT PERU | |
XI PERUVIAN ANCIENT HISTORY | |
CONCLUSION | |
APPENDIX | |
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ages ancient history antiquity appears architecture Atlantic Aztecs barbarous Brasseur de Bourbourg builders building built called Casa del Gobernador Central America character Chichen-Itza Chichimecs civilization coast Colhuas communities Conquest constructed continent Copan copper Cortez covered Cuzco decay decorations described discovered edifices Eirek existed explored extent farther south feet high feet long figure forest Greenland hewn stone Huayna Capac hundred Iceland important Incas inclosures inhabitants inscriptions island Kabah known Kukulcan Lake Titicaca land Malays masonry Mayapan Mayas mentioned Mexican Mexico and Central Mississippi Mitla Montesinos monuments Mound-Builders mounds Nahuas natives North America occupied Ohio old books old city old ruins older original ornamentation Pacific Palenque period Peru Peruvian Phoenicians preserved probably Pueblos pyramidal Quiches race region remains remarkable sailed says sculptured seen settlements Spaniards Spanish square Squier structures summit supposed temple terrace Toltecs traces Uxmal Valley Vinland voyage walls wild Indians writing Xibalba Yucatan