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Cracking the Maya Code: The story behind the centuries-long decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs Part 5
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books. For centuries, scholars considered it too complex ever to understand—until recently, when an ingenious series of breakthroughs finally cracked the code and unleashed a torrent of new insights into the Mayas' turbulent past. For the first time, NOVA presents the epic inside story of how the decoding was done—traveling to the remote jungles of southern Mexico and Central America to investigate how the code was broken and what Maya writings now reveal.
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6:57 Jesus, is that you?
DASRH 4 weeks ago
@666Desolate999 not true the language never left many of the natives in central america
aztec714ok 3 months ago
If you stop vidio on 04:17 what you see?.....I see 3 faces of man now go down can you see women figure? next to that defiantly an alien , next if you look closer looks like alien ship , has dots looks like lights and the last one all 3 man looking at it.
EVYSOF 5 months ago
That's what school does brain washes you they make you learn about slavery and who George washington was but that's not your HISTORY thats theirs school is a waste of time you can teach your son or brother better than school can because school don't teach you shiit all you really need to know in life is know how to write and read and some math
killergerm5 9 months ago
@666Desolate999 i think it's kinda ironic, but i don't see it as a tragedy at all. mayans finally have the oportunity to learn their ancient writing system and i think that's amazing! doesn't matter what happened before, that's in the past, dude.
cuckoo61 11 months ago 2
9:28 westerners teaching Mayans how to read their cultural ancient language,
what a tragedy
666Desolate999 1 year ago
truly amazing system of writing.
petelcek 1 year ago
I think yes, like Aymaran the language is great for the creation of nelogisms and slang. Very flexible and creative.
Makes me wonder about the Sapir Whorf hypothesis.
Why with such a language and world view were they so into genocide and war ?
faunflynn 2 years ago
could the flexible nature of their symbols be the equivalent of slang?
VoteLib3rty 2 years ago
the pictures are great this thoery of thier undoing is hilarious
odin422 2 years ago