Breaking the Maya code / Michael D. Coe.
Tells the story of the decipherment of the ancient Mayan script and of the people who made the breakthroughs.
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New York :
Thames and Hudson,
[1992]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- The word made visible
- Lords of the forest
- A jungle civilization rediscovered
- Forefathers: the dawn of decipherment
- The age of Thompson
- A new wind from the east
- The age of Proskouriakoff: the Maya enter history
- Pacal's people
- Down to Xibalba
- A new dawn
- A look backward, a view forward
- Epilogue.