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Breaking the Maya Code
by Michael Coe
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- 1999
- PAPER
- 304 PAGES
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A broadly considered history. Michael Coe chronicles the centuries-long search for the "rosetta stone" of the Mayan language, a search which received an enormous boost in 1952 when Yuri Knorosov successfully translated the Dresden Codex, a Mayan bark-paper text. The book also includes an extensive discussion of Maya studies and political activism in the wake of Knorosov's discovery.
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