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Cracking the Maya Code: Timeline of Decipherment

"T"-numbering system 3114 B.C. Alfred Maudslay Ancient Explorers Ancient Writing August 13 Blog Calendar Round Constantine Rafinesque Copan David Stuart Decipherment Diego de Landa Discoveries Dresden Codex Eric Thompson Ernst Förstemann Hieroglyphs Linda Schele Maya Merle Greene Robertson Mesoamerica Palenque phonetic complement Piedras Negras stelae rebus Relation of the Things of Yucatan Tatiana Proskouriakoff Yuri Knorosov

When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and write in Spanish. But long before the Maya used the Roman alphabet, they had created their own rich and elegant script featuring more than 800 hieroglyphs. Sadly, the glyphs’ meanings were lost […]

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