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Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services
Library of Congress: Exploring the Early Americas exhibition
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services
Library of Congress: Exploring the Early Americas exhibition
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services
Library of Congress: Exploring the Early Americas exhibition
Vase with Sixty Hieroglyphs is one of only twelve all-glphic cases known to exit recounting the date the Mayan rulers of the Snake Dynasty were coronated. Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Guatemalan lowlands, Maya, AD 600-900, Library of Congress (033.00.00) Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services
Library of Congress: Exploring the Early Americas exhibition
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services
Library of Congress: Exploring the Early Americas exhibition
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. The figure on the right on this miniature flask is known as "God L" the senior Maya god who presides over the great Baktun cycle, which was competed in December 2012. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services
Library of Congress: Exploring the Early Americas exhibition
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services
Library of Congress: Exploring the Early Americas exhibition
The Hearth of Creation concept illustrated in Mayan art. Two mythological dates are carved into the disk suggesting events that are not part of the earthly world circa AD 200 - 600. Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services
Library of Congress: Exploring the Early Americas exhibition
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services