We wanted to get this moving and setting a date helped spur some things.

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.

It was a princess-cut engagement ring with the woman's date [of engagement] engraved on it. That really helped.

I have found no evidence to date in the rather voluminous material, floor to ceiling, that we have 10 staffers going over, that there was any manipulation on the part of the administration,

The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.