Maya Cycles of Time
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DescriptionJohn Lloyd Stephens and Fredrick Catherwood brought the ancient Maya to world attention in 1841 with their illustrated volumes entitled Incidents of Travels in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. For some time after, though, much about this lost civilization remained shrouded in
mystery. A Spanish colonial Franciscan priest, Fray Diego de Landa had come very close to annihilating the civilization in an effort to wipe out practices he viewed as relapses into
paganism. He burned every Mayan book he could find...