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By Michael D. Coe,Mark van Stone

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In the new previous, a operating wisdom of the Maya script has been restrained to epigraphers, paintings historians and different experts. Its very unfamiliarity to most of the people, and the daunting point of its nearly 800 indicators, have made the approach look extra complicated and arcane than it truly is. studying the Maya Glyphs is a compact, moveable consultant to permit scholars, travelers and armchair travelers to learn and comprehend usually encountered vintage Maya texts.

Topics lined contain the character of the script, the elaborate Maya calendar, dynastic and political texts, and each element of the normal and supernatural global within which they lived. Written by way of the world's major authority in Maya experiences, Michael D. Coe, and illustrated by means of the drawings of Mark Van Stone, one among America's awesome calligraphers, the booklet presupposes no past education in Maya epigraphy or archaeology. even if within the fingers of holiday makers to the good Maya websites of Mexico and important the US or consulted via museum-goers, this consultant should still improve their appreciation a number of the world's maximum paintings and architecture.

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