Thursday, December 15, 2005

The Mayan Green Room

I was truly stunned by the beauty of the newly discovered (and earliest) Mayan painting in this morning's NYT.

The detail and colors were superb. And I was enjoying reading about Mayan art, an area which I know far too little about.

That is until I got to this bone-headed statement talking about the room in which the mural was found:

Dr. Saturno suggested that it could have been the room - something like the greenroom in television studios - where the king rehearsed his public performances reinforcing his mythic right to rule.

Yeah. Right. Sure it was. And the Mayan king was like Leno.

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