Tatiana's Dream by Jim FrazerTatiana Proskouriakoff was a Russian exile who became, by an improbable route, one of the foremost scholars of Mayan epigraphy. Trained as an architect, she was originally hired to survey excavated Mayan structures; that work resulted in a book, Album of Maya Architecture, that remains the classic work of architectural reconstruction of Mayan ruins. Later on, her paper detailing her insights into a pattern of dates she found in the inscriptions at