The ancient script of the Maya baffled scholars for centuries. Widely viewed as one of the greatest civilizations of the western hemisphere, which peaked around A.D. 250-900, the Maya people of Mesoamerica are known to have been great astronomers.
The ancient script of the Maya baffled scholars for centuries. Widely viewed as one of the greatest civilizations of the western hemisphere, which peake
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On the centenary of his birth, we look at the life and legacy of Yuri Knorozov, the Ukrainian-born linguist who is now popularly regarded as the man who single-handedly deciphered the ancient writing of Mesoamerica’s Maya civilization.
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