The Civilization and Its Writing
Longhena, Maria
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Hardcover
Edition: English Edition
180 pages
Illustrations, Maps
Published: 2000
Publisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN / EAN: 0789206536
This volume presents about 200 Maya glyphs (symbolic figures). Some are ideograms (pictorial symbols representing things, not words); others are phonetic signs. The glyphs express people, animals, things and such abstract concepts as death. Each one open