Tatiana's Dream by Jim Frazer

Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a Russian exile who became, by an improbable route, one of the foremost scholars of Mayan epigraphy. Trained as an architect, she was originally hired to survey excavated Mayan structures; that work resulted in a book, Album of Maya Architecture, that remains the classic work of architectural reconstruction of Mayan ruins. Later on, her paper detailing her insights into a pattern of dates she found in the inscriptions at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, had a profound effect on Mayan Studies. British Mayanist Ian Graham, writing Tatiana’s obituary in the journal American Antiquity, said “At one blow, this short paper freed the study of Maya writing from lengthy stagnation … it continues to underlie much of today’s increased epigraphic activity.” She received Guatemala’s highest honor and her ashes were interred at the site she loved and studied.This book is a speculation about what she might have thought and dreamed of there in the jungle at Piedras Negras and for