  Dr. Knorozov (pronounced Koor-rin-noz-koff) died in 1999, he singlehandedly created the Mayan discipline of Pre-Colombian Mayan decipherment, using early modern Franciscan documents accompanying the Conquistadors, namely Fr. Diego de Landa. He is buried in St. Petersburg Russia.
Serving Russia's Red Army, he found an original Mayan manuscript burning in Hitler's infamous book burning rituals. It served his interest in hieroglyphic, non-phonetic alphabets. PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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Julia Tchoudinova
1/17/2022 09:23:23 am
The pronunciation of Yuri's surname is Knorozov, pretty straight forward, not the rediculous and unrecognizable 'Koor-rin-noz-koff' as suggested in the description. We will need another decoder in the future to understand who the author was talking about :( Leave a Reply. |
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