Re: New Epigraphic Script
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 18, 2004, 15:01 |
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John Leland wrote:
> In a message dated 7/17/04 10:40:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ThatBlueCat@AOL.COM writes:
> For me, the decipherment of
> the Mayan script is the most significant decipherment at least since Hittite.
IMO the decipherment of Mayan is the most important since
Egyptian, if not the most important ever, since it was the
first in the New World, and done essentially without the
help of any bilinguals. With Hittite they at least had
the Sumerograms to go by.
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