Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806132043
• ISBN13: 9780806132044
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"