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Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg: The Accidental Pseudoarchaeologist - Pseudo 130

Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg: The Accidental Pseudoarchaeologist - Pseudo 130

Episode 130 Published 2 years, 6 months ago
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Today let’s explore the life of Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814-1874), a dedicated scholar who found and published some amazing work on the ancient Maya.  The only problem is that his ideas on Maya culture and translations of Maya hieroglyphs were almost 100% wrong!  Further proof that people with terrible names have little choice in life except to become pseudoarchaeologists…

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