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This second edition reflects newly discovered sites and new decipherments of Maya writing since the first edition was published in 1996, and contains a new chapter on the changes that occurred at the end of the Middle Maya civilization.
It begins with the stories of three great decipherments - Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Linear B and Mayan glyphs - and considers the remaining enigmatic scripts of the world.
But his genius, his gift may mislead those with somewhat lesser gifts to believe that the only way for an artiste to write nonfiction is to rely on his heightened sensibility to render sloppy notes into eloquent decipherments.
 
 
 
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