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The Maya were the only civilisation in the Americas to have a complete script. They used it to record their rituals, calendars, mathematics, and stories, on stone, pottery, and bark. With over 800 characters, it baffled Western academics for over a century. Then it was deciphered by a Soviet linguist, Yuri Knorozov. He'd never set foot in Mexico, but the right tools for decipherment had fallen into his hands in an extraordinary way...