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OCR: 9 his towers war over club. kneeling captive who bound with rope surrenders Kabah was abandoned not long after this stone was carved The city lay virtually untouched overrun by jungle growth, until it was discovered thousand years later by the explorer John Llovd Stephens During his remarkable expeditions Mexico and Central America in 1839 -40 and 1841 Stephens uncovered much of he lost Mayan civilization which until then had been virtu- ally unknown These carvings acquired by the Museum 1919 with their symbols and their dramatic figures are a vivid expression of the beliefs and sen sibilities of that ancient culture Lloyd