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ANCIENT CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO
131 some external but undoubtedly casual resemblance to the Egyptian cartouches.
The script is on the whole undeciphered, except the calendrical symbols and some notation signs. This fact is the more sad as the knowledge of
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1-2, Maya stelae
3. Maya "altar"
the Maya writing has been lost in the last two and a half centuries only. It is known that a large number of Maya manuscripts were in existence at the time of the conquest, and according to Spanish sources, records in Maya
