An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs

Morley, Sylvanus G, and Thompson, Eric S (Designer)

ISBN 10: 0486231089 / ISBN 13: 9780486231082

Published by Dover Publications, 2013

About this Item

Around one hundred thirty years ago the discovery was made that the jungles of southern Mexico and the neighboring countries contained the scattered remains of a high civilization, the Maya, with a system of writing undecipherable and related to no other form known. In the last hundred years the system has gradually yielded its secrets, glyph by glyph, with the eventual result that we can now read a fair amount of the inscriptions. One of the truly great figures in this unfoldment was the late Sylvanus G. Morley of the Carnegie Institution.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486231089
• ISBN 13: 9780486231082
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 13 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology

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Synopsis

Best introduction to the topic — easily accessible to beginners. Extremely full in interpretation; very thorough in exposition of variants and unusual features, with reproductions of many inscriptions unavailable elsewhere. Material from Old and New Empires. Includes an Introduction by noted Mayologist J. Eric S. Thompson.