In the 1840s, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood studied Maya civilization with the best technology the 19th century had to offer: compelling words and captivating artwork captured ...

In the 1840s, English artist Frederick Catherwood and American travel writer John Lloyd Stephens captured the public’s imagination with a series of lushly illustrated books about the ruined c… ...

Journalist Carlsen travels through Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, tracing the footsteps of Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens, the amateur archaeologists whose 1839 expedition offered ...

When John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood journeyed to Uxmal in 1840, the indigenous people told them the legend of the House of the Dwarf. As related by Stephens, an old woman hatched a dwarf son ...