New blog up! Now at the Met.
Design for Eternity in WSJ
Check out the review of the Metropolitan Museum exhibition “Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas” in the Wall Street Journal.
The Search for Kings and Queens in Ancient Panama
The Woman in Wood
Steve Houston and I published a new commentary on the American Museum of Natural History’s beam from Tikal Temple II Lintel 2, on Maya Decipherment.
Thanksgiving, Precolumbian style
My latest for Now at the Met.
Design For Eternity – Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas
Colima,
Ceramic; height 7-1/8 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, From the Collection of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft, Bequest of Nina Bunshaft, 1994 (1995.63.5)
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/317600
#AskACurator Day – Storify
I took over the @metmuseum account for an hour to answer questions!
See the whole conversation here: https://storify.com/metmuseum/askacurator-with-james-doyle
Archival Treasure and Gold Masterpieces from Venado Beach, Panama
I found a great old excavation notebook from Venado Beach in our AAOA files. See more at Now at the Met.
Grasping the Foot of Lightning
Now at theMet features a previously unrecognized Maya scepter fragment, probably a serpent foot of K’awiil. 
Tortuguero Monument 6: Maya Star Wars and a Misconstrued Doomsday
Blood, skulls, Maya 2012 doomsday, 3-D scanning and printing! All in a day’s work, Now at the Met. 
James A. Doyle, Ph.D. 