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Title: The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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AkE and IZAMAL. 299 are thirty-six pillars having each ten stones, this monumentwould be, by the first computation, 8,640 years old, and bythe second, 18,720. It is clear that were this the case thefirst stone would have disappeared long before the last onehad been placed, and that the earlier would have lookedolder than the later ones, whereas the same air of decay is
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PILLARS OF THE GREAT GALLERY OF AK6. observable in all. It is more simple and consistent to supposethis monument to have been a thatched gallery which was usedfor games, meetings, or public ceremonies. Its central positionas regards other monuments would seem to bear me out. Is aruin to be interesting only in ratio of its obscurity and antiquity ? After the pyramid, we visited the ruin known as Akabna, House of Darkness, in which the rooms still standing are 300 The Ancient Cities of the New World. perfectly dark; for the only light they receive is from adoor communicating with other apartments. Here we againfind the boveda, the corbel roof, the pointed arch observed inprevious buildings. The Ake vault is built with large roughblocks, which has caused these monuments to be calledCyclopean, an appellation hardly deserved, for cyclopean structureswere built with far larger blocks, irregular in shape, yetfitting so well that it would be impossible to introduce theslightest object between

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Indians_of_Mexico
  • booksubject:Indians_of_Central_America
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