Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian, archaeologist, and Catholic priest. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, travelling extensivel
Abbé Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg. Lithograph from J. Windsor's 19th-century publication, Aboriginal America.
Coverpage of Brasseur de Bourbourg's original 1857 work, "Histoire du Mexique".
Page from Brasseur de Bourbourg's edition of de Landa's Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán, with the famous de Landa alphabet.
Mu (mythical lost continent)
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Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon, who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
…were tentative and largely unsuccessful. However, his translation would later inspire Augustus Le Plongeon's pseudo-science and speculation about the lost continent of Mu. The name Mu was actually used first by Brasseur de Bourbourg. A few years later, another Maya codex was found possessed by another collector, which…
Underwater structures claimed to be remnants of Mu, near Yonaguni, Japan