Author: DAVID ADAMSON
Title: The Ruins of Time
Description: Allen and Unwin, 1975. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 270. "The discovery and exploration of the Maya ruins is one of archaeology's most remarkable and romantic chapters. It begins with the Spanish adventurers who first set eyes on the gleaming pyramids of 'El Gran Cairo' on the north-east coast of the Yucatán and it continues into this century. The Maya are every bit as fascinating as the Incas and the Aztecs and equally mysterious. During the course of their long and highly soiphisticated civilisation they erected some of the world's most imposing and exquisitely proportioned monuments and evolved an intricate calendar and system of time. The Maya were the last Indian people in Central America to be subdued. It took the Spanish conquerors almost two hundred years to defeat them-and even today travel through the tropical rain forests of the area can be surprisingly hazardous, since Communist guerillas roam Guatemala's Petén province and site looters, greedy for profits from the sale of delicately carved inscriptions in Europe and the U.S.A. are only too ready to gun down those they consider rivals. David Adamson vividly describes the conquest of the Maya by the Spanish, the discoveries and adventures of the first travellers among them, the dramatic journeys of Victorian archaeologists and explorers and also contemporary attemts to unravel one of archaeology's greatest remaining mysteries-the Maya hieroglyphs. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: The Ruins of Time
Description: Allen and Unwin, 1975. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 270. "The discovery and exploration of the Maya ruins is one of archaeology's most remarkable and romantic chapters. It begins with the Spanish adventurers who first set eyes on the gleaming pyramids of 'El Gran Cairo' on the north-east coast of the Yucatán and it continues into this century. The Maya are every bit as fascinating as the Incas and the Aztecs and equally mysterious. During the course of their long and highly soiphisticated civilisation they erected some of the world's most imposing and exquisitely proportioned monuments and evolved an intricate calendar and system of time. The Maya were the last Indian people in Central America to be subdued. It took the Spanish conquerors almost two hundred years to defeat them-and even today travel through the tropical rain forests of the area can be surprisingly hazardous, since Communist guerillas roam Guatemala's Petén province and site looters, greedy for profits from the sale of delicately carved inscriptions in Europe and the U.S.A. are only too ready to gun down those they consider rivals. David Adamson vividly describes the conquest of the Maya by the Spanish, the discoveries and adventures of the first travellers among them, the dramatic journeys of Victorian archaeologists and explorers and also contemporary attemts to unravel one of archaeology's greatest remaining mysteries-the Maya hieroglyphs. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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- Book number: 1933228
- Book number: 1933228
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