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New York TimesBestseller (Expeditions) THE"MASTERFUL CHRONICLE"* OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CIVILIZATION OF THE MAYA--AN "ADVENTURE TALE THAT MAKES INDIANA JONES LOOK TAME"*In 1839, rumors ofextraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the worlds most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwoodboth already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Romesailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found wouldupend the Wests understanding of human history.In the tradition ofLost City of ZandIn the Kingdom of Ice, formerSan Francisco Chroniclejournalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist William Carlsen reveals theremarkable story of the discovery of the ancient Maya. Enduring disease, war, and the torments of nature and terrain, Stephens and Catherwood meticulously uncovered and documented the remains of an astonishing civilization that had flourished in the Americas at the same time as classic Greece and Romeand had been its rival in art, architecture, and power. Theirmasterful book about the experience, written by Stephens and illustrated by Catherwood, became a sensation, hailed by Edgar Allan Poe as perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever published and recognized today as the birth of American archaeology. Most important, Stephens and Catherwood were the first to grasp the significance of the Maya remains, understanding that their antiquity and sophistication overturned the Wests assumptions about the development of civilization.By the time of the flowering of classical Greece (400 b.c.), the Maya were already constructing pyramids and temples around central plazas. Within a few hundred years the structures took on a monumental scale that required millions of man-hours of labor, and technical and organizational expertise. Over the next millennium, dozens of city-states evolved, each governed by powerful lords, some with populations larger than any city in Europe at the time, and connected by road-like causeways of crushed stone. The Maya developed a cohesive, unified cosmology, an array of common gods, a creation story, and a shared artistic and architectural vision. They created stucco and stone monuments and bas reliefs, sculpting figures and hieroglyphs with refined artistic skill. At their peak, an estimated ten million people occupied the Mayas heartland on the Yucatan Peninsula, a region where only half a million now live. And yet by the time the Spanish reached the New World, the Maya had all but disappeared; they would remain a mystery for the next three hundred years.Today, the tables are turned: the Maya are justly famous, if sometimes misunderstood, while Stephens and Catherwood have been nearly forgotten. Based on Carlsens rigorousresearch and his own 1,500-mile journey throughout the Yucatan and Central America, Jungle of Stone is equally a thrilling adventure narrative and a revelatory work of history that corrects our understanding of Stephens, Catherwood, and the Maya themselves.*Missourian*Tampa Bay Times Le Live Marseille : aller dans les plus grandes soires Retrouvez toutes les discothque Marseille et se retrouver dans les plus grandes soires en discothque Marseille Archaeology Wordsmith The term Epoque de St Acheul was introduced by Gabriel de Mortillet in 1872 and is still used occasionally but after 1925 the idea of epochs began to be supplanted Archaeology Wordsmith Results for ba: (View exact match) abacus SYNONYMS OR RELATED TERMS: plural abaci abacuses CATEGORY: structure DEFINITION: In architecture a crowning rectangular Travel With Hawkeye Travel With Hawkeye is a multimedia travelogue featuring longtime Dallas morning radio host Mark Hawkeye Louis (963 KSCS) and his tales from a lifetime of La Ciudad Blanca - Wikipedia La Ciudad Blanca (pronounced: [la sjua blaka] Spanish for "The White City") is a legendary settlement said to be located in the Mosquitia region of the Walking the Nile: Levison Wood: 9780802124494: Praise for Levison Wood and Walking the Nile: An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction) Woods interest as well as his talents as a writer lie in The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Exclusive: John Grisham Reviews The Lost City of Z Since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988 John Grisham has written twenty novels and one work of
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