An Ancient Sleep Comes to an End
1567–1832
About this volume
Volume II reconstructs the long process by which Palenque returned to written history. Beginning with sixteenth-century missionaries, it follows local knowledge, colonial administrators and the first official Spanish expeditions into the forest.
Reports by Calderón, Bernasconi, del Río, Armendáriz and Dupaix—and the drawings that accompanied them—are placed in chronological context. The volume also traces the first European publications and translations that transformed a remote ruin into an international subject of inquiry.
Further images on the landscape, archaeology, and atmosphere of this volume.
These additional views complement the summary page and extend the visual impression of the environment, excavation context, and monumentality associated with the respective volume.
The complete volumes are not available as downloads. These selected images provide a first impression of the sources, documents and visual evidence discussed in the work.
