William Robertson Coe II (28 November 1926 – 23 November 2009) was an American academic, archaeologist, and Mayanist scholar, renowned for his extensive field work and publications on pre-Columbian Maya civilization sites. He is best known for his decades of work and investigations at Tikal, the major site in the Petén Basin region of modern-day Guatemala and one of the largest and most dominant Maya sites of the Classic period.
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28 November 1926 New York City
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23 November 2009 (aged 82)
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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