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Tag: Mayan Civilization
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Nation & World
The story behind ‘Storied Walls’
In March 2001, Bill Saturno, a newly minted Harvard Ph.D., was in Guatemala searching for recently uncovered hieroglyphics as a research associate of the Peabody Museum. It turned out that his guides were overbooked and his planned expedition had to be canceled. As a sort of consolation prize, the company offered Saturno a three-hour Land…
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Peabody teams will scan other endangered monuments
By January, the Peabody Museum’s Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program hopes to be in Copán, Honduras, scanning the imposing but fragile hieroglyphic stairway, the longest inscription in the New World.
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Corpus team overcomes scanning snags
A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape rose above Yaxchilan’s unique pinkish stalactite stela. On the last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s expedition to the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at which they had proven themselves adept: improvising.
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Nation & World
Mexico: Expedition to Yaxchilan
Harvard scholars travel to Central America in their mission to preserve ancient Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions and iconography.
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Nation & World
Mexico: Ian Graham, explorer
As an explorer, archaeologist, draftsman and photographer, Graham has devoted his life to making the ancient comprehensible.
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Nation & World
Archaeological bookends in Copán Valley
COPÁN RUINAS, Honduras – A short drive from the main Maya ruins at Copán, a forested hillside holds a cluster of mounds that Peabody Museum archaeologists believe date from near the end of the great Maya civilization that once dominated the region.