Few explorers have had the experience of uncovering a civilization almost entirely unknown to the world. But Stephen's two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. In this work, and in his other masterpiece Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, he tells the story of his travels to some 50 ruined Mayan cities.In this book, he describes the excitement of exploring the magnificent ruined cities of Copan and Palenque, and his briefer excursions to Quirigua, Patinamit, Utatlan, Gueguetenango, Ocosingo, and Uxmal. Fo... [Read More]
The 1839 and 1841 expeditions of Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens sparked early popular interest in the Maya civilization, which had been largely undocumented at the time. As Stephens published popular accounts of their travels, Catherwood, an artist and architect, made sepia drawings of the sites they visited. Aided by a camera lucida, he was able to render the ruined architecture-intricately graven with strange and unfamiliar glyphs-with such precision that later archaeologists were able to decipher the inscriptions. Twenty-five of these images, garnished with romantic landscapes... [Read More]
The Instant New York Times Bestseller!Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-estab... [Read More]
The 1839 and 1841 expeditions of Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens sparked early popular interest in the Maya civilization, which had been largely undocumented at the time. As Stephens published popular accounts of their travels, Catherwood, an artist and architect, made sepia drawings of the sites they visited. Aided by a camera lucida, he was able to render the ruined architecture-intricately graven with strange and unfamiliar glyphs-with such precision that later archaeologists were able to decipher the inscriptions. Twenty-five of these images, garnished with romantic landscapes... [Read More]
Design features the ancient Mayan temple at Tikal in Guatemala. If you're fascinated by these circa 600 B.C. Mayan structures then this shirt is for you. Tikal National Park in Central America and is the center of Maya culture. These lost Maya cities in the jungle makes this Mayan ruins pyramid design shirt ideal.
The acclaimed chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya. Includes the history of the major Maya sites, including Palenque, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Tuloom, Copan, and more.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Illustrated with a map and more than 100 images. In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for their adventures in Eg... [Read More]
The 1839 and 1841 expeditions of Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens sparked early popular interest in the Maya civilization, which had been largely undocumented at the time. As Stephens published popular accounts of their travels, Catherwood, an artist and architect, made sepia drawings of the sites they visited. Aided by a camera lucida, he was able to render the ruined architecture-intricately graven with strange and unfamiliar glyphs-with such precision that later archaeologists were able to decipher the inscriptions. Twenty-five of these images, garnished with romantic landscapes... [Read More]
The 1839 and 1841 expeditions of Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens sparked early popular interest in the Maya civilization, which had been largely undocumented at the time. As Stephens published popular accounts of their travels, Catherwood, an artist and architect, made sepia drawings of the sites they visited. Aided by a camera lucida, he was able to render the ruined architecture-intricately graven with strange and unfamiliar glyphs-with such precision that later archaeologists were able to decipher the inscriptions. Twenty-five of these images, garnished with romantic landscapes... [Read More]
Cancun and Mayan Riviera 5-Day Itinerary (4th Edition) - Updated May 2018Most famous for Cancun, the Mayan Riviera is Mexico's travel wonderland, a jungle coastline of white-sand beaches, ancient Mayan ruins, laid-back colonial towns, and cenotes—the crystal-clear, freshwater caves and sinkholes found throughout the flat limestone sponge of the Yucatán Peninsula.Many visitors stay at a resort in Cancun. These all-inclusive monstrosities can be a good deal. You'll be right on the beach, have a pool, get unlimited food and drinks, and all-in-all have a fun, relaxing vacation.But even if the p... [Read More]
From the Preclassic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. Ruins of the Past is the first volume to focus on how previously built structures in the Maya Lowlands were used and perceived by later peoples, exploring the topic through concepts of landscape, place, and memory. The collection, as Wendy Ashmore points out in her foreword, offers "a stimulating, productive, and fresh set of inferences about ancient Maya cognition of their own past." Contributors include Anthony P. Andrews... [Read More]
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States, Ward, Geoffrey
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Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
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