What they found on their journey was far more than anyone could have imagined - the remains of a vast Mayan civilization with highly evolved systems of writing, mathematics and astronomy and an architecture that rivaled Greece and Rome. Their mission? To investigate reports of extraordinary, intricately carved stones submerged in the depths of the rain forest.
They cut their way through some of the most inhospitable terrain on the planet, enduring disease and tropical elements in a wild frontier rocked by civil wars. The pair in 1839 undertook a 2,500-mile expedition as harrowing as Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery more than 30 years earlier. He followed the path of John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood to better understand their experience. A West County writer has retraced the journey of two forgotten explorers who discovered the vast and highly advanced Mayan culture in the jungle overgrowth of Central America, rewriting the history of western civilization and laying the foundation for modern archaeology.īefore diving into deep research on what would become his biographical adventure, “Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya,” Bill Carlsen embarked on an adventure of his own.
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