Antonio del Río

Antonio del Río (c. 1745 – c. 1789) was a captain who led the first excavation of the Mayan ruins of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. The expedition was undertaken in 1787 for Charles III of Spain, following reports of the ruins from native inhabitants. It took the team two weeks to dig, and it then spent three weeks studying the site. He was accompanied by Ricardo Almendáriz who created drawings of the ruins still considered scientifically useful.

References

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• García Sáiz, María Concepción (1994). "Antonio del Río y Guillermo Dupaix: el reconocimiento de una deuda histórica" (PDF online reproduction, Universidad de La Rioja). Anales del Museo de América (in Spanish). 2. Madrid: Museo de América, Ministerio de Cultura: 99–119. ISSN 1133-8741. OCLC 445101005.
• Río, Antonio del (1822) [1786]. Paul Felix Cabrera (ed.). Description of the Ruins of an Ancient City, discovered near Palenque, in the Kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America: Translated from the original manuscript report of captain Don Antonio del Río: Followed by Teatro Crítico Americano; or, A critical investigation and research into The History of the Americans. Translated by Paul Felix Cabrera. London: Henry Berthoud, and Suttaby, Evance and Fox. OCLC 55254809.
• Stuart, George E. (2007). "492. Almendáriz, Ricardo, fl. ca. 1787". In Arthur Dunkelman (ed.). The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress: a catalog of the gift of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation to the Library of Congress (PDF online reproduction). With essays by Ralph E. Ehrenberg, Norman Fiering, John Lombardi, Jerald T. Milanich, Robert J. Sharer, and George E. Stuart. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. pp. 154–156. ISBN 978-0-8444-1180-4. OCLC 177817935. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-11-14.

Eighteenth-Century Drawings of Palenque at Library of Congress