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The decipherment of ancient Maya writing / edited by Stephen Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos & David Stuart

This volume examines the history of Maya hieroglyphic decipherment using colonial accounts and modern scholarly research. Over two hundred line drawings illustrate the theories and techniques used to decode the ancient script.
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