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Breaking The Ancient Maya Code | Archeology (2019x113)

Air date: Nov 14, 2019

A good few years ago, the ancient Mayans were thought to be a mysterious and peaceful people governed by astronomer-priests. But in 1965, Russian linguist Yuri Knorosov cracked the phonetic code of Mayan hieroglyphic writing in the confinements of his bustling Leningrad study.