Scribes, Warriors and Kings: The City of Copán and the Ancient Maya

Description

Author: Fash, William L.  (1954-)

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Pub Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Slight scuffing to lower front board.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated on flap corner, though embedded in bar code).  Upper front cover corner at spine head has a triangular crease, approx. 1/2″ x 2″.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Copán, on the Honduras/Guatemala border and in the far southeast of the Maya cultural region, flourished from the 5th to the 9th centuries A.D., though it had an approximately 2000 year history.  At its peak it probably had a population of 20,000 and covered an area of approximately 100 square miles.  Sylvanus Morley called Copán “the Athens of the New World.”  Basically a history of Copán and the Maya, along with architecture, sculpture, artifacts, and reconstruction efforts.  Lots of photos (black-and-white, color), drawings (black-and-white, color), charts of rulers, the Maya calendar, stellae translations.  Very National Geographic-ish, but more technical.  Well done.