Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (born 1883)

Sylvanus Morley

American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S.

Sylvanus Griswold Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who studied the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early 20th century. Morley led extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza on behalf of the Carnegie Institution and published several large…