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| 1867 births | |
| gann, thomas | |
| 1938 deaths | |
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Gann with stucco idol he found at Tulum, 1920s Thomas Gann was born in Murrish , Ireland and trained in medicine in Middlesex , England . In 1894 he was appoinrted district medical officer for British Honduras , where he would spend most of the next quarter century. He soon developed a keen interest in the colony's Maya ruins, which up to then had been little documented. He also traveled into Yucatán , exploring ruins there. Gann discovered a number of sites, including Lubaantun , Ichpaatun and Tzibanche. He published the first detailed descriptions of such ruins as Xunantunich and Lamanai . He made important early exploration at such sites as Santa Rita , Louisville, Belize , and Coba . At Tulum he documented buildings overlooked by previous explorers, including a rare find of a temple with the Pre-Columbian Idol still intact inside. He wrote several books about his travels and explorations. Thomas Gann retired as British Honduras's medical officer in 1923 . In his later years Gann was a lecturer in Archeology at the University Of Liverpool . |
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