Word: peru
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dorsey delivered a most interesting lecture in the Peabody Museum yesterday afternoon on the Necropolis of ancon, Peru...
...midst of a vast rolling plain. The city itself covers about 200 acres. The first mention we find of the existence of such a place is in a book written in 1753 by an explorer and traveller in South America, in which we see that in the centre of Peru there was a town of about 500 inhabitants called Ancon. In 1748 the name Lancon was printed on a map of Peru made in France. This was probably a corruption of La Ancon. Ever since this time there have been frequent references to the city in books and on maps...
Lecture. The Necropolis of Ancon, Peru. Mr. G. A. Dorsey. Peabody Museum...
Lecture. The Necropolis of Ancon, Peru. Mr. G. A. Dorsey. Peabody Museum...
...Ancient Peru, by Mr. G. A. Dorsey...