The companion website to the PBS NOVA documentary Cracking the Maya Code, covering Yuri Knorozov's phonetic breakthrough, Eric Thompson's opposition, and David Stuart's 1981 discovery that a single Maya sound could be spelled with different glyphs.
Facts
PublisherPBS, NOVA
URLhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mayacode/time-09.html
Source TypeReference Work
Reliability Tier2
A public television science documentary companion site built with working epigraphers, a reputable secondary account rather than a peer reviewed academic paper. Sources
Cracking the Maya Code (PBS NOVA)
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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