MEXICO CITY — It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors ...
THE ANCIENT MAYA (520 pp.) — Sylvanus G. Morley—Sfanford University Press ($10). Bat-haunted and deserted for centuries, the mysterious limestone cities of the Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the ...