Wednesday, May 25, 2005

USATODAY.com - Secrets of the Maya ... unlocked

USATODAY.com - Secrets of the Maya ... unlocked: "Secrets of the Maya ... unlocked
By Lesley Bannatyne, The Christian Science Monitor
It's 1959. A young Ian Graham packs supplies on a few mules — food, mosquito nets, a camera, a machete — and hires a group of Guatemalans to lead him along the ragged jungle paths they've cut to gather chicle for chewing gum. The team treks through the humid overgrowth until they reach a site his guides had spotted earlier. There, beaten by weather and overrun with vines, lie ruins of the ancient Maya, a civilization that collapsed a thousand years ago."

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