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Cracking the Maya Code

The wonderful PBS series Nova has created another excellent historical feature, which airs tonight: “Cracking the Maya Code“:

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.

As usual, the Nova website offers numerous interactive features which let you get right inside the topic, as well as a short preview video. Make sure you take a look at the show if it airs in your location. But if you can’t, head back to the website after April 9th and you can watch it all online! (h/t Cosmic Log)

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  1. Very Informative!
    Thank-you for posting this! It was very interesting!

    What do you think?

    cnnek

    {You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can’t Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}

  2. A rendition to Linda Schele
    I would like to make note that the work done by Linda Schele was invaluable to help us understand the mayan hieroglyphics. And the reason why I think it is important that everyone knows the work this wonderful woman did, was because at first she entered the mayan research as a complete neophite, an amateur. But her love for the mayan civilization led her to investigate more and conduct research that was praised later by the scientific community.

    I learned about this woman during my college years, and I also read a wonderful OMNI interview done to her. She seemed a person truly enamored with her work.

    So you see, any ousider can make a significant contribution. All you need is passion and patience 😉

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

    1. Well said!
      Indeed, well said!

      Linda Schele’s work on understanding how towns like Chichen Itza (and all other major centres) portray the creation myth is truly wonderful and brings new meaning to the term “Sacred Geography”. Walking in Chichen Itza with her book in my mind, is a sensation. And it is specifically her research that tallies with the observations made by eg John Major Jenkins.

      However, unless I missed something, there is no need to speak of this woman in the past tense, I think?

      PhC

      1. I’m fraid so
        According to her Wikipedia entry, she passed away in 98. Cancer 🙁

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

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