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Carnegie Institution for Science

1902 · 20th century · Also known as Carnegie Institution of Washington

The Carnegie Institution for Science is a research organisation founded in Washington in 1902 by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, long known as the Carnegie Institution of Washington. From 1914 to 1958 it ran a major programme of Maya research, led by Sylvanus Morley and Alfred Kidder, with excavations at Uaxactun, Chichén Itzá and other sites. Its work laid the foundations of modern Maya archaeology and epigraphy.

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