In conjunction with some 400 paper molds painstakingly taken on site, the Archaeology volumes were instrumental in generating the interest and institutional support that made Maya archaeology possible and prevented the destruction by modern development of many ancient cities, monuments, and art. His five-volume Archaeology, published in 1889-1902, featured high quality photographs and detailed drawings of Maya monuments. He conducted extensive surveys of major ancient Maya sites, most notably Copán, Tikal, Palenque, and Chichén Itzá, in the 1880s and early-1890s-a time when nobody had done such work before and no institutional funds existed to cover it. as one of the founding fathers of their field, if not the founding father. Maudslay is revered by Maya archaeologists. It is therefore not altogether surprising that with this densely researched and delightfully written book, Graham has turned Alfred Maudslay's extraordinary life into a ripping good yarn. Anybody who has had the pleasure of being at a dinner party where Ian Graham is also a guest will know that he is a master raconteur.
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