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Breaking the Maya Code (Third Edition)
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| #557245 in Books | 2012-02-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x1.00 x6.20l,1.52 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Neither inconsequential nor petty|By Stephen E. Burklund|This has been one of my favorite books since I first read it back in the early 90's. I had grown up reading about the Maya as peace-loving philosopher kings but reading Freidel and Schele's A Forest of Kings A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya demolished that myth. Then I found Coe's fascinating and ex|From Scientific American|The decipherment of the Maya script was, Coe states, "one of the most exciting intellectual adventures of our age, on a par with the exploration of space and the discovery of the genetic code." He presents the story eloquently and in det
The inside story of one of the great intellectual breakthroughs of our time―the first great decipherment of an ancient script―now revised and updated.
In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship: glyphic experts can be found not only in North America, Mexico, Guatemala, and western Europe but also in Russia and ...
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