Centennial Moments
Excavating Chichen Itza
Carnegie Corporation provided grants totaling $62,000 between 1924 and 1935 to assist the Corporation’s sister institution, the Carnegie Institution for Science (then called the Carnegie Institution of Washington), with efforts to excavate the Mayan city of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan region of Mexico. Famed aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh played a role in this work, making a number of flights over the area along with Carnegie Institutions archeologists, a trail-blazing step forward in mapping the parameters of an archeological site.



