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Breaking the Maya Code

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Oct 14
  • 1 min read

Breaking the Maya Code (Third Edition) by Michael D. Coe, Thames & Hudson, 2012. 


The Mayans of Central America left behind a body of  stone inscriptions. Mayan specialists have, until recently, made little progress in deciphering their writing system. This has changed in the last few decades, because a new approach has been taken. Modern linguists have studied the spoken languages of the descendants of the Mayans to help them decipher the stone inscriptions. Their efforts have been very successful. The written language has been found to be phonetic, rather than ideographic.

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