Vol. 1 / No. 1
By: Edwin M. Shook
The Temple of the Red Stela: An important new monument is unearthed at the Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala.
Archaeological digging is a good deal like prospecting– you never know when and where you are going to strike paydirt. […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 2
By: Edwin M. Shook
Tikal Stela 29: The oldest dated Lowland Maya monument is unearthed in the jungles of Guatemala. For a discussion of Maya dates the reader is referred to the accompanying article by Linton Satterthwaite.
Just short of a century ago, in 1864, canal diggers working in the steaming heat of a coastal swamp a […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 1
By: Edwin M. Shook and Alfred Kidder, II
The Painted Tomb At Tikal: An important discovery by the Museum's expedition in Guatemala.
One day, perhaps late in March of the year A.D. 457, masons set the final stone in the wall they […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 2
By: Edwin M. Shook
Tikal: Problems of a Field Director
In 1955 the Guatemala Government reopened the airfield at Tikal, making possible the initiation of large-scale excavation and reconstruction there. […]
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