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    Magnetic Mesoamericans

    Jun 13, 2019 2 minutes
    by JASON URBANUS

    HE CENTRAL PLAZA OF the town of La Democracia in southern Guatemala is graced by a collection of 11 rotund stone sculptures. Archaeologists recovered the works from the nearby ancient city of Monte Alto, whose early residents were likely Maya. The sculptures, which artists hewed from basalt boulders some 2,300 years ago,

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