USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -(With the 21st-century discovery of the Mayan site of San Bartolo in Guatemala came evidence of Mayan writing that pushed back its date of origin to at least 300 or 200 bc.) It was the only true writing system developed in the pre-Columbian Americas.

Detailed explanation-2: -No less fundamental of those was Yuri Knorozov, who became the first linguist to decipher the enigmatic Maya script-the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica-in the early 1950s.

Detailed explanation-3: -On November 19, 1922, Soviet linguist epigrapher and ethnographer Yuri Knorozov was born. Knorozov is particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Maya writing system is considered by archaeologists to be the most sophisticated system ever developed in Mesoamerica. The Maya wrote using 800 individual signs or glyphs, paired in columns that read together from left to right and top to bottom.