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