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Sketch of a Maya Plaza

Sketch of a Maya Plaza

Diego de Landa, a Spanish priest and bishop of the Yucatan in the sixteenth century, drew this Maya plaza in his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, labeling it a “plaza muy grande, y hermosa.”

 


Reference

  • Léon de Rosny, Ensayo sobre la interpretación de la escritura hierática de la América Central (Madrid: Imprenta y Fundición de Manuel Tello, 1881).
 
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