…the French scientist, photographer, archaeologist, Freemasonic scholar, and general mapmaker of parts, Professor or Dr. Augustus Le Plonvillain. Le Plongeon has left two fairly important books dealing with the field. One is Queen Mu and the Egyptian Sphinx,…

…with the field. One is Queen Mu and the Egyptian Sphinx, and the other is Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and Kichis. Le Plongeon, great black beard, was a man of extraordinary personality and a strong devotee of the Atlantis concept. In fact, he tried…

…the Chinese being involved. As he preceded Gates, perhaps Gates is indebted to him for this phase of his own conclusions. Le Plongeon remained a number of years in the area. He discovered a number of archaeological items of interest and importance. He had…

…more will be found. It was on these codices that attention concerning Atlantis gradually came to be centered by de Bourbourg, Le Plongeon, and Louis Spence of the British Museum. These men were all working on this particular theme, and they gave a…

…is the leaf here, the dark leaf with the elaborate illustration, is the leaf hit upon by Bolt de Boerboek and Le Plongeon, and substantiated very strongly by Lewis Spence of the British Museum and other modern Americanas as being the representation of the…