125
Mayapan 127
Uxmal 131
Kabah 137
Chichen-Itza 140
Other Ruins 144

VI. ANTIQUITY OF THE RUINS 151
Distinct Eras traced 155
Nothing perishable left 156
"The Oldest of Civilizations" 159
American Cities seen by Tyrians 161

VII. WHENCE CAME THIS CIVILIZATION? 165
The "Lost Tribes of Israel" 166
The "Malay" Theory 167
The Phoenician Theory 171
The "Atlantic" Theory 174
It was an original Civilization 184

VIII. AMERICAN ANCIENT HISTORY 187
The Old Books not all lost 189
The Ancient History sketched 197
The Toltecs our Mound-Builders 200
Some confirmation of the History 205

IX. THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION 207
The Discovery and Invasion 209
The City of Mexico 211
The Conquest 213
Who were the Aztecs? 216
They came from the South 217

X. ANCIENT PERU 222
The Spanish Hunt for Peru 223
The Ruins near Lake Titicaca 226
Other Ruins in Peru 237
The great Peruvian Roads 243
The Peruvian Civilization 246

XI. PERUVIAN ANCIENT HISTORY 257
Garcilasso's History 258
Fernando Montesinos 261