The Kukulkan Manuscript by James Steimle Page A

under their collars? Just haven’t learned what the
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stands for!”
    “Have-have you seen him? Has he been in at all this evening? Maybe just now?”
    “Not today,” he said with a grin. She could see the wheels working behind his gaze. This Bruno was obviously one of those fellows who thought twice as much and three times as fast as common folk. He looked more regular than anyone else, but could likely solve all the world’s problems from right here in his cafe.
    But Alred didn’t want his help.
    “Thanks,” she said. “Another water please.”
    “Haven’t finished your first,” he said, indicating the one by her left hand.
    She looked across the cafe to the glass door and the darkness beyond. “Yeah,” she said, with her mind searching the street again for someone leaving the place. She hadn’t been in the bathroom that long! No matter how many times she went through the possibilities in her mind, she couldn’t figure out what had happened. There were more questions than there were answers.
    She nodded at the old man, and he smiled and left her with the journal. She opened her notebook and prepared to read what looked like a waste of time, but was now tied to…to what? Blue ink?
    If there were answers, Alred had to find them. More now than before. If it was a race to study the new find, then she’d burn the oil of all ten virgins. She’d stand on the shoulders of Albright
and
Porter. She would succeed and benefit. But most of all, she would find the answers to her new questions. And she’d figure out what had happened to Ulman.
    With new resolve, Alred looked down at the page.
THE MESOAMERICA MIDDLE-EAST CONNECTION
Codex KM-1 and Related Finds
by
Dr. Dennis Albright, Ohio State University
Introduction
When I first arrived in the Valley of Guatemala, I was surprised by the intensity of the beautiful surroundings and the simple humility of the native people. But surprise is too shallow a word to describe the immense shock I felt when I walked around the new archaeological site just outside of the small Indian village called Kalpa in the Cuchumatan mountains. One point solidified in my mind when I beheld all the facts for the first time. I would have scoffed at the thought only hours before! i There
is
an ancient Mesoamerican connection with the Middle-East. The academic world can have no doubt about it anymore. ii
When my companions expressed their impressions, I simply couldn’t believe it. In fact, I refused to! Then I saw the codex which we have come to term KM-1 (Kalpa Manuscript, One). iii Part of a larger library, KM-1 and its apparent home illustrate three points which I shall illuminate below.
First, Kalpa sits on the outskirts of an ancient city far greater than any metropolis previously discovered in Central America. That fact alone demands years of investigation.
Second, KM-1 contains both words and pictures correlating directly to certain localities of the Middle-East, suggesting more than arbitrary evidence of the transoceanic contact discussed by a small number of recent and heretofore relatively unrecognized scholars over the last twenty years. iv
Last of all, I suspect KM-1 is the most complete and detailed codex of the ancient inhabitants of Highland Guatemala c. 700 BCE.
I do not wish to mislead the reader. The aforementioned finds are completely new and require a thorough study, which will surely tax Mesoamerican archaeologists for at least the next fifty years.
I acknowledge certain flaws involved in our present study. We have found so far no definitive name for the ancient center, nor are we unified in supposing exactly who lived at the site. Dating has been assumed from the language of KM-1 alone, and the writing has been a tremendous point of argumentation for the few of us at the Kalpa dig. v No part of the manuscript has been interred into a lab. KM-1 is unlike anything we have found in the past, and is subject to numerous questions that we have no time for in this paper. vi
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