Esperanza Stone
# Esperanza Stone

The Esperanza Stone was a large (8-feet long) inscribed stone found in the valley of the Yaqui, Mexico. It was discovered and excavated in 1909 by Major F. R. Burnham and Charles Frederick Holder.

## Discovery

The stone was discovered during an expedition in the Yaqui valley.

## Description

The stone was "a brown, igneous rock, its longest axis about eight feet, and on the eastern face, which had an angle of about forty-five degrees, was the deep-cut inscription." Symbols on the stone include a volute and a swastika, also found on other stones in Mexico.

## Legend

There was a legend that the stone had fallen down out of heaven in times past, and that the carving was by human hands.

## Meaning of the symbols

Burnham believed that the symbols were Mayan. Others class them as Petroglyphs.

