Gregory's ServerSoviet scientist Yuri Knorozov, who deciphered Maya script, listed his cat, Asya, as a co-author. The publishing house he worked for removed it, so he submitted this as his author's picture.
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Soviet scientist Yuri Knorozov, who deciphered Maya script, listed his cat, Asya, as a co-author. The publishing house he worked for removed it, so he submitted this as his author's picture. 5 comments
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@yogthos from a linguist friend (@MathewsSonya on the bird site):
Yessse!!
He is quite the famous character. The story of his scholarship is the story of the iron curtain.
He was roundly denied and trounced by the leading maya scholars of the day who believed the glyphs were not phonetic.
So there is extensive scholarship debunking his claims. Which all turned out to be correct, but werenβt fashionable.
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