Breaking the Maya Code

Breaking the Maya Code

The inside story of one of the great intellectual breakthroughs of our timeâ€•the first great decipherment of an ancient scriptâ€•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 the countries of eastern Europe.

The third edition of this classic book takes up the thorny question of when and where the Maya script first appeared in the archaeological record, and describes efforts to decipher its meaning on the extremely early murals of San Bartolo. It includes iconographic and epigraphic investigations into how the Classic Maya perceived and recorded the human senses, a previously unknown realm of ancient Maya thought and perception.

There is now compelling documentary and historical evidence bearing on the question of why and how the â€œbreaking of the Maya codeâ€ was the achievement of Yuri V. Knorosovâ€•a Soviet citizen totally isolated behind the Iron Curtainâ€•and not of the leading Maya scholar of his day, Sir Eric Thompson. What does it take to make such a breakthrough, with a script of such complexity as the Maya? We now have some answers, as Michael Coe demonstrates here. 112 black-and-white illustrations
Country USA
Manufacturer Thames & Hudson
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780500289556
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Thames & Hudson
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780500289556
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Breaking the Maya Code

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