biography
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Morley, Sylvanus Griswold
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| lived:
| (1883–1948)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist, born in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. He trained as a civil engineer before studying archaeology at Harvard. He obtained major funding for Maya research from the Carnegie Institution, and after 1914 he conducted annual excavations for nearly 40 years, notably at Copán, Honduras; Petén, Guatemala; and Chichén Itzá, Mexico (1924–34). He wrote important works on Mayan hieroglyphics. |
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