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The major decipherments started in the 1970s, so depends on your definition of “a long time” I suppose. I don’t think it’s fully deciphered yet, but iirc somet
by acheron 3y ago
The major decipherments started in the 1970s, so depends on your definition of “a long time” I suppose.
I don’t think it’s fully deciphered yet, but iirc something like 80-90% of inscriptions can be figured out now.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoIn fact the breakthroughs in decipherment, as well as all significant anthropological findings, have been thanks to the work of His Excellency, Fray Diego de Landa, OFM, who has been unjustly accused as a "monster", but despite his burning of all their codices, 'his work in documenting and researching the Maya was indispensable in achieving the current understanding of their culture, to the degree that one scholar asserted that, "ninety-nine percent of what we today know of the Mayas, we know as the result either of what Landa has told us in the pages that follow, or have learned in the use and study of what he told."' (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa
- earthboundkid 3y agoThat’s pretty bullshit. If the Spanish hadn’t destroyed Mayan culture, we wouldn’t need to “decipher” the hieroglyphics. We could just ask educated Mayans to read them to us. You don’t get points for stabbing a man and then giving him last rites.
- hoten 3y agoAre you saying he did not burn the original works? If he did, the accusations seem just to me.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoIt's quite unjust to call anyone a "monster". Human beings have dignity and deserve respect, even if they are found to have done wrong. I would not call any human person a "monster", no dictator, no mass murderer, particularly no bishop or clergyman. The word "monster" is dehumanizing and unjust in itself. It is emotional rather than descriptive or accurate. It is verbal cruelty, and I believe that no matter how cruel someone is, they never deserve human cruelty in return, but rather respect and dignity.
- hulitu 3y ago> It's quite unjust to call anyone a "monster". The so called "journalists" have no problems using this word.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoWell, sometimes it's also unjust to call someone a "journalist", isn't it.
- corinroyal 3y agoI choose to presume you're trolling. The alternative is that you're a monster.