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Cracking the Maya Code 35 Season 14 Episode
55 min
1974
7.1
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books. For centuries, scholars considered it too complex ever to understandโuntil recently, when an ingenious series of breakthroughs finally cracked the code and unleashed a torrent of new insights into the Mayas' turbulent past. For the first time, NOVA presents the epic inside story of how the decoding was doneโtraveling to the remote jungles of southern Mexico and Central America to investigate how the code was broken and what Maya writings now reveal.
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