khiber

Updated: July 7, 2026

Before leaving the country of the Afghans, by the KHIBER Pass that is to say, the road of the hawk; HI, hawk, and BEL, road allow me to inform you that in examining their types, as published in the London illustrated papers, and in Harper’s Weekly, I easily recognized the same cast of features as those of the bearded men, whose portraits we discovered in the bas-reliefs which adorn the antæ and pillars of the castle, and queen’s box in the Tennis Court at Chichen-Itza.

Augustus Le Plongeon - Vestiges of the Mayas : or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate : Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between : the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa