New Maya Epigraphy Center Opening in Yucatan The Yucatan Times
go to original April 18, 2014

Maya Epigraphy Center in Yucatan (Mexico News Network)

Thanks to the contribution of the State University of Human Science of Russia and the support of the government of Yucatan, the opening of the Russian Maya Epigraphy Center “Yuri Knórosov” was finally concreted.

Yuriy Valentinovich Knorozov was a Soviet linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, who is particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

This study center will help investigators, academics and students from all over the world to develop and spread the knowledge enclosed in these ancient glyphs.

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