Word: maya
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...collection of casts of inscriptions on the stone stairway leading up to the prehistoric temple at Copan, Honduras, has recently been put on exhibition at the Peabody Museum. The inscriptions are similar to those found in the Maya books and probably have a religious significance. The stairway is built of trachite, specimens of which have been in the Museum for some time, and in the debris of the ruins some elaborate statues have been found...
...Lanteru-illustrations of scenes and places famous in Buddhist story. Sumedha. Maya's dream. The Bo-tree temple. The great reliquaries or stupas...