The first photographs or registered trademarks of Tikal

These are the first photographs or registered trademarks of Tikal, taken by Alfred Percival Maudslay in 1882.

Some of the stories of second-or third-hand of Tikal began to appear in newspapers from the late SEVENTEENTH century and were followed by the writings of John Lloyd Stephens, in the NINETEENTH century. (During your travel, 1839-1840, in the region, Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, his illustrator, heard rumors of a lost city, with white buildings, whose upper parts dominated the jungle). Due to the remoteness of the site, no explorers visited the ruins of Tikal until Modesto Méndez and Ambrosio Tut, respectively the mayor and the governor of Petén, they were visited in 1848, together with Vicente Diaz, Barnabas Castellanos and the master Eusebio Lara, who accompanied them, to develop the first illustrations of the monuments.
In the late NINETEENTH century and early TWENTIETH century, several other expeditions followed, in order to deepen the research, including the expedition of Alfred P. Maudslay in 1881-82 and archaeologists pioneers began to clean, draw, map and record the ruins in the 1880s.