Talk:Piedras Negras

My name is Terence Egan-Wyer Marroquin. My father was Terence Michael Egan-Wyer, who married my mother, Maria Teresa Marroquin de Egan-Wyer in Guatemala City in 1930. They went on their honeymoon, to explore the Peten Region of Guatemala, along with an expedition of the Pennsylvania Museum from Philadelphia. This institution hired my father to be the civil engineer of the expedition, that eventually explored the location of Piedras Negras on the banks of the Usumacinta River. My mother would tell us about their adventures in the Guatemalan Jungles, among the Lacandon Indians, considered the descendants of the Mayans of that regions. They had all sorts of Pictures of their trip and trinket, bows and arroes that they brought back to Guatemala City. I was born in Guatemala on February 3, 1932, therefor conclude that I was concieved during the honeymoon trip to Piedras Negras. My brothes, four besides me and I really enjoyed the tales that they told us of their trip. Naturally with time and moving around Guatemala, my father being an Engineer would have assignments to different places for his work, and so, I lament that most all of these treasures were lost to us, except for the memories thay bring back to me and posterity.

At present 2006, I had the very emotional finding. One day looking in Google, I happened to try putting my fathers name as T.Egan-Wyer, as he usually signed himself in his papers, in the search bar. Lo to my supprise, His name came up. With emotions I can't describe I swallowed tears of pleasure and pride, to see, after some 70 years a record of their surjourne in the Jungles of Guatemala. You can imagine the awakening of my mind as it was refreshed with all the stories he and my mother told us. They are in my memory, as vague whisps of words that would come from their mouths, in some evenings, when after dinner they would elaborate for us wonderful tales, of what they saw.

I can only send you to explore the drawings and photographs of the site of Piedras Negras, that are recorded as his in his report to hia employer at =

[PDF] PNA ,1931–1939 File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat T. Egan-Wyer contain mapping information and measurements. Object Catalogs include catalogs of ... and sections made by Mr. T. Egan-Wyer, our engineer ... www.famsi.org/research/piedras_negras/u_penn/PiedrasNegrasArchaeology01.pdf

If you would like, I have a picture of the Egan-Wyer Family, as of 1950 in Guatemala City. That I would like to contribute to posterity.

Terence Egan-Wyer Jr. teribina@yahoo.com