Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931) was a British colonial diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. He was one of the first Europeans to study Maya ruins. 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Contents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Diogo de Azambuja (15th century Portuguese explorer of the African coast) Pêro de Alenquer (15th century Portuguese explorer... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... The word Maya or maya can refer to: The Maya – a Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America the modern Maya people the pre-Columbian Maya civilization the Maya language Maya – a concept in Hindu/Vedic philosophy a state of misperception of reality the inherent force of...

Alfred Percival Maudslay was born into a wealthy engineering family 1850. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge in 1868-72 and was acquainted with J.W. Clark, who was Secretary of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. After graduation he enrolled in medical school but left because of acute bronchitis. He moved to Trinidad and became a private secretary to the governor William Cairns. He transferred with Cairns to Queensland but later moved to work with Sir Arthur Gordon, governor of Fiji. During his time there, Maudslay took part of the campaign against local rebellious tribes. Later he served as a British consul in Tonga and Samoa. In total, Maudslay spent six years in the British colonies in the Pacific. 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Bronchitis is an inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning. ... This article refers to the island comprising part of the country Trinidad and Tobago; for other meanings, see Trinidad (disambiguation). ... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ...

In February 1880 Maudslay resigned from the colonial service to pursuit his own interests. He joined his siblings in Calcutta during their around-the-world trip and returned to Britain by December. He set out for Guatemala via British Honduras. This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... British Honduras was the former name of a British colony on the east coast of Central America, now the independent nation of Belize. ...

In Guatemala Maudslay went to the Maya ruins of Quirigua and Copan. With the help of Frank Sarg, he began to hire laborers to help with the ruins. Sarg also introduced Maudslay with the newly found ruins in Tikal and a reliable guide Gorgonio Lopez. Quiriguá is an ancient Maya site in the Izabal department of Guatemala. ... The Pre-Columbian city of Cop n is a locale in extreme western Honduras, in the Cop Department, near to the Guatemalan border. ... Tikal is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Maya civilization. ...

Maudslay had the ruins cleared and surveyed them. He pioneered many of the later archaeological techniques. He hired technicians to make plaster casts of the carvings, took numerous photographs - dry-plate photography was still a new technique in those days - and made copies of the inscriptions. This article is about the building material. ...

Maudslay decided to make plaster casts of many of the sculptures. For this purpose he hired Italian expert Lorenzo Giuntini. Gorgonio López learned to make casts out of papier-mâché. Casts were then shipped to Britain. Two of them were damaged during transportation. Maudslay then hired artist Annie Hunter to draw impressions of the casts. Papier-mâché (French, chewed-up paper) is a construction material that consists of pieces of paper, sometimes reinforced with textiles, stuck together using a wet paste (e. ...

Maudslay made total of six expeditions to Maya ruins. He was the first to describe the site of Yaxchillan. The result of the Maudslay's work was published as a 5-volume archaeology section in a compendium Biologia Centrali-Americana. One of the pyramids on the upper terrace of Yaxchilan. ...

In 1892 Maudslay married US-born Annie Morris. For their honeymoon, the couple sailed to Guatemala via New York and San Francisco. There Maudslays worked for two weeks in behalf of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Their account was published 1899 as A Glimpse at Guatemala. 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, the early paleontologist. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Maudslay also applied for permission of making a survey in Monte Alban in Oaxaca but when he finally received permission in 1902, he could no longer support the work with his own money. The firm of Maudslay, Sons and Field had went bankrupt and reduced Maudslay's income. He unsuccessfully applied for funding from the Carnegie Institution. Maudslays moved to San Angel near Mexico City for two years. Monte Albán is a large archeological site in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. ... The Mexican state of Oaxaca is in the south west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. ... The Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) is a foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 to support scientific research. ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) at the center of Mexico, about 2,240 metres (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides...

In 1905 Maudslay began to translate memoirs of Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who had been an ordinary soldier in the troops of conquistadors; he completed it 1912. In 1907 Maudslays moved permanently back to Britain. Maudslay become a President of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1911-12. He also chaired the 18th International Congress of Americanists in London in 1912. Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 or 1493 - 1581) was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico under Hernán Cortés. ... Conquistador (meaning Conqueror in the Spanish language) is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas and Asia Pacific under Spanish rule between the 15th and 17th centuries. ...

Annie Maudslay died in 1926. In 1928 Maudslay married widow Alice Purdon. In the following years he finished his memoirs, Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago. 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Alfred Maudslay died January 1931 in Hereford, London. He was buried in the crypt of Hereford Cathedral next to his first wife. Materials he collected are currently stored at Harvard and the British Museum. 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Location within the British Isles Hereford (Welsh: Henffordd (pronounced Henfuth)) is a historic city in the west of England, close to the border with Wales and on the River Wye. ... St. ... The current Hereford Cathedral, located at Hereford in England, United Kingdom, dates from 1079. ... The main entrance to the British Museum The British Museum is one of the worlds largest and most important museums of ancient history. ...

Books

• Ian Graham - Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography (2002, ISBN 0-8061-3450-X)