Institute of Maya Studies Presentation from September 19, 2012:

“A Visit to Nakum, Guatemala” with our IMS webmaster Keith Merwin

The Maya site of Nakum is located in the northeastern Petén, Guatemala. Along with Yaxhá and Naranjo, it makes up the Parque Triángulo, or Triangle Park.

This important site was first located (1905) by Count Maurice de Périgny, a French explorer, and has been studied a number of times since then. The first intensive investigation was conducted by the Triángulo Project of the Guatemalan Institute of Anthropology and History (IDAEH) in 1994. In 2006, a new research project was undertaken by Wieslaw Koszkul and Jaroslaw Zralka from the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland and is named the Nakum Archaeological Project (NAP).

Keith Merwin follows in the footsteps of his relative Dr.Raymond E. Merwin, who visited and photographed Nakum in 1909-10. This presentation will provide a tour of this out-of-the-way site that should be on the list of modern explorers visiting the Petén.