Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx

About this book

Augustus Le Plongeon saw a connection between Maya ruins and the monuments of ancient Egypt. Photographs and inscriptions from Yucatán become, in his account, clues to the adventures of a legendary Queen Móo.

The argument leaps between architecture, names, myths and the Sphinx with the assurance of a theory already convinced of its answer. Archaeologists reject Le Plongeon's supposed translations and the historical links he proposed. Yet his book preserves a record of one man's intense engagement with Maya sites, together with the extraordinary story he constructed from what he thought the stones were saying.