Cival
Cival is an ancient Maya city in northeastern Peten, located 7 km north of the ancient city of Holmul. It owes its name to a sinkhole near its main hill. It was first visited in 1911 by Raymond E. Merwin.
Holmul
Holmul, Guatemala is a remote Maya archaeological site near the border with Belize. The site was first located by the 1909-1910 expedition from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Late in 1910 the next Peabody expedition returned with Raymond Merwin as director and his younger brother, Bruce Merwin as his assistant. Over the next several months what they found was different from anything previously found at a Maya site. It was here that Raymond preformed the first stratigraphical study of a Maya ruin. This study revealed for the first time that the Maya built new structures on top of older structures. Inside the pyramid was the first royal burial tomb located in a structure, complete with a collection of ceramics large enough to produce the first ceramic sequence in Mayan studies.
Nakum
Nakum is a large Mayan ruin located on the Holmul River north of Lake Yaxha. The first scientific explorer to visit Nakum was Count Maurice de Perigny (1877 - 1935) in 1905. Perigny mentioned Nakum in his 1908 report. Perigny returned to Nakum in 1909 spending six weeks clearing the site. The Peabody Expedition of 1909 visited the site from February 27, 1910 until March 21, 1910. Information gathered on this visit was used to produce the Peabody Museum Memoir, vol. 5, no. 3. A Preliminary Study of the Prehistoric Ruins of Nakum, Guatemala by Dr. Alfred Tozzer.
