Word: copan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Peabody Museum has issued a report of the expedition sent out last year, under Mr. Gordon, to investigate and decipher the inscriptions on the Hieroglyphic Stairway at Copan, Central America. The expedition was absent nine months and succeeded in uncovering all the stairway that still remains in position. There were originally eighty-five steps in the flight, but now only fifteen remain. The work of the expedition consisted principally of replacing the fallen steps in their proper order so that the inscriptions carved on the front of the steps could be deciphered. Mr. Gordon was finally enabled to translate...
Beside this collection, an interesting set of articles of dress and about five hundred photographs have been brought from the highlands of Guatemala by Mr. Gordon of the Museum. In past years he has been engaged in excavations in the ruined cities of Guatemala, Quirigua and San Augustin, and Copan in Honduras, and during the past winter he has been living in the highlands, among the remnants of the Maya race, the founders of these cities, in order to discover traditions in regard to the history of the cities and the reason they were deserted. These attempts have been without...
Active work has been done in all departments of the Museum during the year. Exploration in Central America has been successfully continued, and photographs, moulds, casts, and sculptures have been added to the collections. The series of moulds taken from the great Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan has been completed and a model of the ancient city is now in the Central American Hall of the Museum. T. e. Sacred Buffalo Hide and other articles belonging to the Omaha Indians, which were stolen from their keeper just as he was about to present them to the Museum have been found...
...Peabody Museum will send out an expedition, about the middle of next week, to continue exploration in the ruined and pre-historic city of Copan, Central America. Mr. Gordon, who conducted the former expedition to this place, is to have charge again, and will meet his former co-workers in Central America. The party will probably be gone about six months. The object of the expedition will be to make photographs and moulds of the sculptures and inscriptions which may be found...
According to advices received at the Peabody Museum from Mr. Gordon, who is in charge of the explorations to be made at Copan, President Sierra of Honduras has conceded to Harvard University, by treaty arranged at Tegucigalpa on Feb. 22, the charge of the ruins of Copan and the lands pertaining thereto, for a period of ten years, with the right to make excavations and to remove to Cambridge for preservation a portion of the objects that may be encountered. This treaty, which will be ratified within a few days by the National Congress of Honduras, ensures the care...