The Ruins of Time (1975) examines the conquest of the Maya by the Spanish, the discoveries and adventures of the first travellers among them, the dramatic journeys of Victorian archaeologists and explorers and also contemporary attempts to unravel Maya hieroglyphs.
Part
1. Conquest
1. The Strength of Darkness
2. The Land of Maiam
3. The
Conquest Begins
4. The Maya Crushed
5. Are They Not Men?
6. Beneath the
Vines, Beneath the Trees
7. The Fall of Tayasal Part
2. Exploration
8. A Lost
City Rediscovered
9. The Race to Palenque
10. Incidents of Travel
11. The
Cruzob, People of the Cross
12. The Greatest Discovery
13. La Cité Lorillard
14. The Epigraphers
15. Lords of the Jaguar Mat
16. A Foot-Soldier of
Anthropology
David Adamson
