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Breaking the Maya Code: Directed by David Lebrun. With Michael D. Coe, Ian Graham, Nikolai Grube, Peter Mathews. The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems.
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- Documentary, Mystery
- David Lebrun
- 2008-05-05
Interviewed April 12 and 13, 2005 at his home in Austin, Texas. David Stuart began deciphering Maya glyphs at the age of 10, under the tutelage of Mayanist Linda Schele. His theory of redundancy in the Maya script, formulated at the age of 18, was to open the floodgates of the Maya decipherment. In collaboration with Evon Vogt and.
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Breaking the Maya Code #7: David Stuart. http://www.nightfirefilms.org A young boy begins his study of Maya glyphs at age 8; by age 18 he will make the final great breakthrough in the...
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- Night Fire Films
The complex and beautiful Maya hieroglyphic script was until recently the world’s last major undeciphered writing system. Its decoding has unlocked the secrets of one of mankind’s greatest civilizations.
Breaking the Maya Code was eleven years in the making. It originated with a conversation between director David Lebrun and archaeologist Michael Coe (author of the book “Breaking the Maya Code”) at the 1997 Maya Meetings at the University of Texas in Austin, and began production with extensive filmed interviews with Mayanist Linda Schele in ...
Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times "one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery", Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents. — David Lebrun.
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Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times “one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery”, Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres.
