Yuri Knorozov: The maverick scholar who cracked the Maya cod

The ancient script of the Maya baffled scholars for centuries. Widely viewed as one of the greatest civilizations of the western hemisphere, which peaked around A.D. 250-900, the Maya people of Mesoamerica are known to have been great astronomers...

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