American archaeologist and anthropologist Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was born #OTD in 1857.
She discovered two forgotten manuscripts of pre-Columbian manuscripts in private collections, one of them being the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. She decoded the Aztec calendar stone and was one of the first to identify and recognise artefacts dating back to the pre-Aztec period.
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Books by Zelia Nuttal at PG:
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