Nazario Collection

The Nazario Collection (Spanish: Colección Nazario), also known as Agüeybaná's Library (Spanish: Biblioteca de Agüeybaná), Father Nazario's Rocks (Spanish: Piedras del Padre Nazario), and the Phoenician Rocks (Spanish: Piedras Fenicias), are a cache of carved stones that originated at Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. According to contemporary accounts, the statuettes made of local serpentine rocks were first discovered by Catholic priest José María Nazario y Cancel during the 19th century, and feature unidentified petroglyphs that have been speculated to be connected to the Old World for over 130 years. Their original site was not far from Yauco and was underground, where it was hidden under a slate that concealed a tunnel. Overwhelmed with the quantity and difficulty of transporting a trove that

Nazario Collection

The Nazario Collection (Spanish: Colección Nazario), also known as Agüeybaná's Library (Spanish: Biblioteca de Agüeybaná), Father Nazario's Rocks (Spanish: Piedras del Padre Nazario), and the Phoenician Rocks (Spanish: Piedras Fenicias), are a cache of carved stones that originated at Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. According to contemporary accounts, the statuettes made of local serpentine rocks were first discovered by Catholic priest José María Nazario y Cancel during the 19th century, and feature unidentified petroglyphs that have been speculated to be connected to the Old World for over 130 years. Their original site was not far from Yauco and was underground, where it was hidden under a slate that concealed a tunnel. Overwhelmed with the quantity and difficulty of transporting a trove that