The following excerpt is from an April 23, 2010 article published by The Idaho State Journal. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
POCATELLO — Amid a downpour in the spring of 2005, Stanley Guenter worked quickly to excavate a panel from a Mayan temple bearing the ancient hieroglyphs of a long-dead language.
It was the second-to-last day Guenter’s team would be at the ruins of La Corona in northern Guatemala. The inscriptions were perfectly preserved, and the stone retained traces of a red paint the ancient Mayans used to sprinkle on bodies, preparing them for the afterlife…
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