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...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...
...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...