Breaking the Maya Code

By: Michael D. Coe

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Paperback | 19 December 2011 | Edition Number 3

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In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship: glyphic experts can be found not only in North America, Mexico, Guatemala, and western Europe but also in Russia and the countries of eastern Europe.

The third edition of this classic book takes up the thorny question of when and where the Maya script first appeared in the archaeological record, and describes efforts to decipher its meaning on the extremely early murals of San Bartolo. It includes iconographic and epigraphic investigations into how the Classic Maya perceived and recorded the human senses, a previously unknown realm of ancient Maya thought and perception.

There is now compelling documentary and historical evidence bearing on the question of why and how the "breaking of the Maya code" was the achievement of Yuri V. Knorosov-a Soviet citizen totally isolated behind the Iron Curtain-and not of the leading Maya scholar of his day, Sir Eric Thompson. What does it take to make such a breakthrough, with a script of such complexity as the Maya? We now have some answers, as Michael Coe demonstrates here.

Industry Reviews

'Coe's thrilling account of the cracking of Mayan is like a detective story ... great stuff' - Observer
'A thrilling story of academic rivalry, bigotry, chewing gum and - wait for it - penis perforation' - Daily Mail
'An entertaining, enlightening and even humorous history of the great searchers after the meaning that lies in the Maya inscriptions' - Anthony Burgess
'Told with great vigour by Professor Michael Coe, who was himself involved; he offers an insider's story with strong views of the personalities, competence and abilities of some colleagues' - History Today
'A great story told clearly and passionately by a great Mayanist. It's an inspiring example of the ultimate triumph of a truth in the knock-down, drag-out world of academic politics' - Science

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Preface	p. 7
Prologue	p. 9
The Word Made Visible	p. 13
Lords of the Forest	p. 46
A Jungle Civilization Rediscovered	p. 73
Forefathers: The Dawn of Decipherment	p. 99
The Age of Thompson	p. 123
A New Wind from the East	p. 145
The Age of Proskouriakoff: The Maya Enter History	p. 167
Pakal's People	p. 193
Down into Xibalbá	p. 217
A New Dawn	p. 230
A Look Backward, A View Forward	p. 257
Envoi	p. 274
Proskouriakoffs "Suggested Order of Discussion"	p. 275
The Maya Syllabic Chart	p. 277
Notes	p. 282
Glossary	p. 288
Sources of Illustrations	p. 290
Further Reading and Bibliography	p. 292
Index	p. 300
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