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Pre-Columbian monuments in Mexico and Central America: 1) Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico (visual reconstruction); 2) Mural inside the Royal Palace of Chichen Itza (Yucatán, Mexico); 3) Mayan relief from Palenque depicting a king seated on a jaguar throne, (Yucatán, Mexico, after Jean Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck); 4) Portal of the Palace of Palenque (Yucatán, Mexico); 5) Aztec calendar stone (National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City); 6) Aztec hieroglyphics - Documentation of a lawsuit; 7) Chak Moo,l found in Chichen Itza, Yucatán (now National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City); 8) Stela H at Copán, commissioned by Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil (Honduras). Wood engravings, published in 1888.