Word: copan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Peabody Museum has recently published a preliminary report of explorations which it has been conducting for several years past, among the prehistoric ruins of Copan, in Honduras. The explorations were begun in the early part of 1891 and have been carried on ever since. Progress has been necessarily slow because it has been impossible for any work to be done except in the dry seasons. This report is the first one of a series of quarto memoirs which the Peabody Museum will issue in regard to these discoveries at Copan. It consists of a preliminary outline of the nature...
...stone, some of them fine specimens, besides a great many articles in pottery, bone, shell, etc., including a number of jade ornaments and carvings. The floor of this room is literally crowded with casts which are exact reproductions of great monuments, idols and altars from the ruins of Copan...
...that it has been found necessary to make the rule that all persons wishing to see the collection must first obtain the key to the room from the Library room of the Peabody Museum, which is just to the left after entering the main door. With this restriction, the Copan exhibition is now open to the public...
...chambers, several of which have been cleared in the process of exploration so that their structure is in part understood; but a great amount of work is still to be done before all the structures of this ancient city are known. The ruins extend for several miles along the Copan river and give evidence that this region once sustained a numerous population...
...publication of this report will certainly arouse renewed interest in American archaeology, and it will in a measure serve as a handbook for those who wish to make a more careful study of the objects from Copan exhibited in the Museum. To those who have...