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Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer. He became the founder of the Soviet school of Mayan studies, and his identification of the existence of syllabic signs proved an essential step forward in the eventual decipherment of the Mayan script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.



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✵ 19. November 1922 – 30. March 1999
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Yuri Knorozov Quotes

“What created by a human mind, can be solved by another human mind. From this point of view does not exist and cannot exist unsolved problems in any area of science.”

Yuri Knorozov

Profile of Yuri Knorozov http://cemyk.org/pages/en/yuri-knorosov.php

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“There are no indecipherable writings, any writing system produced by man can be read by man.”

Yuri Knorozov

Epigraphic Atlas of Petén Phase 1 http://cemyk.org/pages/en/publications-projects.php

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