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The City of the Sacred Well: Being a Narrative of the Discoveries & Excavations of Edward Herbert Thompson in the Ancient City of Chichenitza
by
T.A. Willard
With some Discourse on the Culture and Development of the Mayan Civilization as Revealed by their Art and Architecture, here set down and illustrated from Photographs.
Paperback, 312 pages
Published
October 15th 2004
by Kessinger Publishing
(first published October 15th 1910)
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Dated, quaint, ill-informed, this is quite the entertaining travel/adventure book. It dates from back in the day when basically there were no effective laws about treasure-hunting, back when one could cheaply buy land containing ancient ruins and do with them as one wished. In this case, the place was Chichen Itza in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the hunt focused primarily on the cenote at the site, presumed to be a sacred well. Perhaps it was. In any case, they dove it and found treasures!...more
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