"The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing" is an important story
of intellectual discovery and a tale of code breaking comparable to
the interpreting of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the decoding of
cuneiform. Using classic articles taken from publications
unavailable to most readers, accounts by Spaniards who witnessed
the writing of the glyphs and research by twentieth-century
scholars--from Tatiana Proskouriakoff to Michael Coe--this book
provides a history of the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs.
Introductory essays offer the historical context and describe the
personalities and theories of the many authors who contributed to
the understanding of these ancient glyphs.
More than two hundred line drawings illustrate the text and
serve as an introduction to decipherment. This landmark work in
Maya studies is the first book to examine the centuries of thought
behind the decoding of Maya hieroglyphs.
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