Word: copan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copan will be the objective point of the expedition, and Mr. Gordon's party will join him there later in the season. It is intended to excavate the larger temples, and to copy by means of impressions or moulds the inscriptions and sculptured decorations on the walls, tablets and altars, which will be brought to light. An experienced moulder will form one of the party in the field...
...plan which Mr. Gordon has proposed and which has been adopted by the Museum, involves the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the ruins in the Copan valley and comprising several thousand acres, and the building of a house thereon to serve as headquarters for exploration from year to year. The runs will furnish an abundant supply of building stone ready at hand, and the forests of pine, cedar and mahogany growing on the land will afford a supply of building material which will be found convenient, in the absence of facilities for transportation...
...collection of casts of inscriptions on the stone stairway leading up to the prehistoric temple at Copan, Honduras, has recently been put on exhibition at the Peabody Museum. The inscriptions are similar to those found in the Maya books and probably have a religious significance. The stairway is built of trachite, specimens of which have been in the Museum for some time, and in the debris of the ruins some elaborate statues have been found...
...Peabody Museum has just received, through the kindness of Mr. E. G. Squier, two original drawings in sepia of two old idols or images now standing among the ruins in Copan, Central America...
They are originals of plates one and two of Frederick Catherwood's folio publication on the ancient monuments of Central America, published in London in 1844, and were made by him from his sketches of the ruins of Copan in 1839. The casts of these idols are now on exhibition in the Museum...