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Review title: Good Narrative of Historical Takes
Product review: Tompkins starts with an introduction to the genocide of peoples and desecration of the ancient Mesoamerican cultural structures by the Spaniards before getting to a very readable romp about personalities who attempted to preserve or ripoff Teotihuacan and other archeaological sites. The book presents a good overview of this site, which unlike the Giza/Egyptian pyramid complexes was not treated to in depth technical study until the 1950s and later. Even now, large portions remain unexcavated. The later parts of the book delve into Atlantean connections, a natural link with the speculations of Augustus Le Plongeon and others who appear earlier in the text. While it is not directly a history of the Maya, Olmecs, Aztecs, or others, there is enough citation within the interesting sidenotes and extensive bibliography to take serious readers into the bowels of the beast as of the 1970s, when this was published. All in all, this is a very nice little treasure.
