Epigraphers decipher the Mayan hieroglyphs in this well-done documentary. It's up to Nova's usual standards. I'd like to give a big shout-out to Bishop Diego De Landa who burned almost all of the Mayan writing during the Spanish Inquisition so all those folks who deciphered the Mayan language had jobs all those years. Way to go! Sounds like something a modern billionaire would think up. "Burn Books, Create Jobs For Hundreds Of Years!". I'm totally behind it. I watched Breaking The Maya Code on Netflix, and they said nothing about the end of the world. The total exclusion of that seems fishy to me, and it was probably an PBS-related conspiracy. Here's a trailer:
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