Lost Cities of the Maya
First French edition. The cover featuring El Castillo of Tulum, lithograph by Frederick Catherwood, 1844. | |
| Author | Claude-François Baudez Sydney Picasso |
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| Original title | Les cités perdues des Mayas |
| Translator | Caroline Palmer |
| Cover artist | Frederick Catherwood |
| Language | French |
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Release number | 20th in collection |
| Subject | Maya archaeology |
| Genre | Nonfiction monograph |
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Publication date | 4 December 1987 23 October 2008 (new ed.) |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1992 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 176 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-2-0705-3035-9 (first edition) |
| OCLC | 798831222 |
| Preceded by | Les fossiles, empreinte des mondes disparus |
| Followed by | Sur des mers inconnues : Bougainville, Cook, Lapérouse |
Lost Cities of the Maya (French: Les cités perdues des Mayas) is a 1987 illustrated monograph on Maya archaeology. Co-written by the French Mayanist and iconologist Claude-François Baudez and art historian Sydney Picasso, and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 20th volume in their "Découvertes" collection (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United States, and "New Horizons" in the United Kingdom). The book was adapted into a documentary film of the same name in 2000.