Archived How digital technology is taking Mayan culture back to the future (theguardian.com)
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'Maudslay’s casts of Mayan monuments still have untold stories, said Cooper, as the Mayan hieroglyphs were first translated relatively recently, in the 1980s. '
'The British Museum has more that 250 glass plate negatives from Maudslay’s travels and hundreds of casts. '
'Instead of simply taking objects he used the latest photographic technology to record discoveries and made plaster casts of the monuments. '
'The British Museum and Google announced the results of a project to digitise and disseminate Maudslay’s incredible collection, one which has largely kept in storage unseen for more than 100 years. '
'More than a century after the British explorer Alfred Maudslay took pioneering photographs and casts of some of the most incredible ancient Mayan objects and sites, digital technology is ensuring they can finally be widely seen. '
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