Project Gutenberg 2008-04-18 Public domain in the USA. 113 Charnay, Désiré 1828 1915 Charnay, Desire Charnay, Claude-Joseph-Désiré Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel 1814 1879 Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, E. (Eugène) 02004883 Cités et ruines américaines: Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal photographiées par Désiré Charnay Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France [BnF/Gallica] at http://gallica.bnf.fr and by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/) "Cités et ruines américaines: Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal" by Désiré Charnay is a photographic and historical account written in the mid-19th century. The work is dedicated to the study and documentation of ancient American civilizations, focusing particularly on significant ruins and architectural marvels across Mexico. Accompanied by text from the renowned architect Viollet-le-Duc, it seeks to bridge the gap in understanding regarding the origins and cultural significance of these sites. The opening of the work begins with a preface in which Charnay outlines the motivation behind his explorations of these ancient ruins. Initially intending to create an exhaustive study, he expresses his disbelief at the incomplete nature of previous accounts and highlights the need for accurate and detailed documentation. Through photography, he aims to provide undeniable evidence of the grandeur and intricacies of these civilizations, while engaging with philosophical questions about their origins and cultural interconnections. Charnay also reflects on the influence of various ancient cultures, hinting at a complex heritage that includes elements reminiscent of Egyptian, Assyrian, and Indian architecture, setting the stage for a thorough exploration of the ruins that follows. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Mexico -- Description and travel Mayas -- Antiquities Extinct cities -- Mexico Mexico -- Antiquities Mitla Site (Mexico) -- Photographs Palenque Site (Mexico) -- Photographs Izamal Site (Mexico) -- Photographs Uxmal Site (Mexico) -- Photographs Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico) -- Photographs F1201 Text FR Voyages et pays FR Sciences et Techniques Browsing: Archaeology Browsing: History - American Browsing: Travel & Geography 865848 865855 2024-09-11T03:54:04.227789 2023-09-11T07:30:49.119841 text/html text/html 987302 2021-01-03T11:54:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 3414202 2021-01-03T11:54:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 3540600 2024-09-11T03:54:23.751683 application/epub+zip 3547536 2024-09-11T03:54:10.714775 application/epub+zip 414970 2024-09-11T03:54:06.797806 application/epub+zip 5400706 2024-09-11T03:54:31.510175 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5324465 2024-09-11T03:54:19.930724 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 662516 2022-09-11T13:34:29.120383 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 776145 2024-09-11T03:54:02.253850 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 775870 2021-01-03T11:54:28 text/plain; charset=utf-8 297780 2021-01-03T11:54:28 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 756828 2021-01-03T11:54:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 294758 2021-01-03T11:54:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 23978 2024-09-11T03:54:31.679151 application/rdf+xml 26668 2024-09-11T03:54:07.208802 image/jpeg 4940 2024-09-11T03:54:07.000780 image/jpeg 3474195 2024-09-11T03:54:04.441844 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia