11 Facts About Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Proskouriakoff graduated from the College of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University.

In 1958, Tatiana Proskouriakoff moved to the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, where she worked until her retirement in 1977.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff worked for over 20 years on the consolidated history of the Maya, which was published posthumously in 1994.

In 1998, part of Tatiana Proskouriakoff's ashes was buried in the "J-23" building on the Acropolis in Piedras Negras, which she depicted in her archaeological reconstructions.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff was born in Tomsk, in the Tomsk Governorate of the Russian Empire, to a chemist and his physician wife.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff was devoted to a career in interpreting art, architecture, and hieroglyphics.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff had a talent for drawing and received lessons in art and watercolor.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff graduated valedictorian of her class and was the editor of the school yearbook.

In 1926, Tatiana Proskouriakoff enrolled at the Pennsylvania State College School of Architecture and graduated as the only female in her class in 1930.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff became honorary curator, Maya art, of the Peabody Museum in 1958.

Tatiana Proskouriakoff died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 30,1985.