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Cracking the Maya Code Video Notes  Mayan writing system developed independently  Bark paper books, monuments, pottery places where you could find Mayan writing  16 century- Spanish inquisition o Mayan books burned by Diego de Landa  Mayan scribes forced to write in European scriptdestruction and death of Mayan script  Guatemala-Yucatan area was heart of civilization o Tikal, Copal, Palenke  important cities built around AD 2000  Thrived for 2000 years  9 c Maya abandoned many cities o Calderon (Spanish conquistador) found Palenke 1000 years after o Confusion by Europeans that Mayan script was influenced by ancient Babylonians and Hindus (included elephants in depictions of Mayan script)  The Dresden Codex o Manuscript went to Germany o 1910 o Scholars tried deciphering it  Jay Eric Thompson o Dominated Mayan glyph studies o Thought Mayan steles/scripts built to commemorate passage of time  Tatiana Proskouriakof o Discovered that Mayan steles in fact described 60 year reigns… DYNASITES o These were describing family history  Knorozov o Counted symbols o Found that Mayan writing system was mixed system of word signs and phonetics signs  Temple of the Inscriptions o Discovered by Shealy and Mathew in 1948 o Inscriptions described key event of Lord Shield’s life (renamed Pakal, Mayan for “shield”) and 5 successors o Hidden chamber led to body of Lord Shield