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18

Mayan Glyphs-A New World Logosyllabary

Lecture no. 18 from the course: Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity

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Taught by Professor Marc Zender | 30 min | Categories: Literature & Language

Investigate whether the features of Old World scripts such as Chinese and Japanese, Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform, and Linear B apply to the unrelated scripts of the New World. Focus specifically on Yuri Knorosov's decipherment of Mayan hieroglyphic writing and how living in Cold War Russia both helped and hindered his work.
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