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Alfred Maudslay

British explorer and scholar

Died when: 80 years 310 days (970 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Alfred Maudslay

Alfred Percival Maudslay FRAI (18 March 1850 – 22 January 1931) was a British diplomat, explorer, and archaeologist.He was one of the first Europeans to study Maya ruins.

He also fully translated and annotated the best version of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España from the only original manuscript in 1908 for the Hakluyt Society, which was abridged in 1928.

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