Mayan

Los Angeles was wonderfully exotic; a polyglot mix of Aztec, Incan, Mayan and New World scents and sounds.

While chipping away plaster from his kitchen wall, the Guatemalan man unearthed a series of centuries-old Mayan murals.

One depicts a procession of figures wearing both Mayan and Spanish garb, some holding what appear to be human hearts.

One of the largest sites of pre-Columbian Mayan ruins, Tikal was once one of the most important cities in the Mayan world.

Paradise Island is now home to Vegas-style casino resorts and the Aquaventure Waterpark, with its mammoth Mayan Temple waterslide.

Yucatan is covered with interesting ruins, the remains of different branches of the mighty Mayan race.

Such are the monuments of the Mayan people, of whom not many facts are to be disentangled from the early legends.

Aguilar, the interpreter, knew Mayan, but not one word did he understand of the Aztec dialect now spoken.

The cross occurs frequently, not only in the Mayan sculptures, but also in the ceremonial of the Aztecs.

Passing from the traces of Aztec and Mayan civilization, we may now glance at the antiquities of the Colombian states.