Month: April 2008

Photo Wednesday

This image of the National Palace and downtown Guatemala City at night is from Oscar Mota’s photostream. .

Precolumbian treasures confiscated in Germany

Police in Bavaria have confiscated an estimated $100 million worth of Mayan, Aztec and Incan treasures. A resident of Costa Rica purports to own the objects, which were…

The war on plants

Dale Pendell, author of Pharmako/Poeia, has argued that the “war on drugs” is like a religious war, intended to keep officially sanctioned drugs like alcohol and chocolate dominant….

Photo Wednesday

This fiery chac-mool image comes from shapeshift’s photostream. .

Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala

The New York Public Library has digitized and put online The Orchidaceæ of Mexico & Guatemala by Jas Bateman. This rare book was published 1837-1843 by James Ridgway…

Maya temples

If figures somehow that Sun Ra would have done a tune called Mayan Temples. Far out? .

Historical images of the Puuc region

There is a great selection of early drawings and photos of the Puuc Maya region (of which the best-known and most extensively restored site is Uxmal) at a…

Adding up the bones

and arms, and hearts, and hands, and arrows . . . Geographer Barbara Williams and mathematician Maria del Carmen Jorge y Jorge have, after three decades of labor,…

Edweard Muybridge

A reader named “Yes” correctly identified the photographer of this week’s photos as Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). Muybridge was born in England and emigrated to the U.S. in 1851….

Photo quiz, part 4

Okay, here’s the fourth and final clue. This picture was not taken in Guatemala, but surely it will reveal the photographer featured in this week’s previous posts.

Photo quiz, part 3

Here’s another image by our mystery photographer (see also the past two days’ posts). What’s going on here? (Hint: the picture documents a subject for which the photographer…

Photo quiz, continued

Come, come, I know I have some readers. Surely someone can guess the famous photographer of yesterday’s image. Okay, maybe this will help. Here’s another photo by the…