How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs
- ISBN-10
- 0781810205
- ISBN-13
- 9780781810203
- Category
- Social Science / Archaeology
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books
- Author
- John Montgomery
Description
This comprehensive guide to deciphering Maya hieroglyphs contains a complete outline of the writing, presenting individual signs and their meanings, the script's grammatical structure and content, and explanations of the sophisticated Maya calendrical and mathematical systems.
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