Ralph L. Roys

Ralph L. Roys was an American scholar of the Yucatec Maya. He translated colonial Maya texts, most notably The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (1933), and in The Political Geography of the Yucatan Maya (1957) used Spanish colonial records to reconstruct the provinces of Yucatán at the time of the conquest. His work remains a standard reference on the late pre-conquest Maya of the peninsula.