Augustus Le Plongeon, English-American historian, photographer, and academic (died 1908)

Augustus Le Plongeon

British photographer and archaeologist (1825–1908)

Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon was a British-American antiquarian and photographer who studied the pre-Columbian ruins of America, particularly those of the Maya civilization on the northern Yucatán Peninsula. While his writings contain many notions that were not well…