Yuri Knorozov: Between Cyrillic and Mayan glyphs

A Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer named Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov played a critical contribution in deciphering the Maya script, the writing system employed by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Mesoamerica.

Yuri Knorozov: Between Cyrillic and Mayan glyphs
Russian epigrapher, linguist and historian Yuri Knórosov deciphered the Maya script in the 1950s. Image credit: Prensa Libre