Commissioned by the French Ministry of Public Instruction and funded by the American Peter Lorillard, Charnay spent the years 1857 to 1882 photographing and excavating the ruined cities of Mexico and Guatemala. He describes the Toltec sites around Tula and Teotihuacan and the Maya palaces of Yucatán and the lowland forests, setting out his theories of who built them.
A pioneer of Mesoamerican archaeology at work in the field, with the hardships and rivalries left in. Download the free EPUB.