Publisher's Synopsis
Nothing in the progress of human knowledge is more remarkable than the recent discoveries in American archaeology, whether we regard them as monuments of art or as contributions to science. The names of Stephens and Norman will ever stand preeminent for their extraordinary revelations in Mexico and Yucatan; which, added to those previously made by Del Rio, Humboldt, Waldeck and D'Orbigny in these and other parts of our continent, have thrown a bright, yet almost bewildering light, on the former condition of the western world."
