Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist and ethnologist. He is best known for the key role he played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system of the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
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RoleSoviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist known for deciphering the Maya script 1 Role
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Demonstrated in 1952 that Maya hieroglyphic writing was a phonetic-logographic system, overturning the then-dominant view that it was purely symbolic.
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Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Кнорозов; 19 November 1922 - 30 March 1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist.
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was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist.
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