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Breaking the Maya Code

by Michael D. Coe

ISBN 0500050619 / 9780500050613 / 0-500-05061-9
Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc
Language English
Edition Hardcover
List price $24.95
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Thanks to an extraordinary scientific breakthrough, Mayan monuments are revealing a history lost to humanity for a millennium. Coe gives the inside story of the decipherment of Mayan glyphs, portraying the Maya as a complex civilization, obsessed with warfare, dynastic rivalries, and ritual bloodletting, yet creators of supreme masterpieces in art and architecture. Illustrations. [via]