Cracking the Myan Code

Watching the NOVA special Cracking the Maya mandate made me realize a lot of things virtually the Mayas and about their linguistic communication that I had never before known. I thought it was in truth interesting how they figured out the Dresden codex correlated to a while the universe had started. Even more than that, they correlated that to our calendar, to help them date the hieroglyphics that they found. I regain it is really interesting how they recreated what the Maya cities would have looked like, and how the civilizations would have been.I think one of the most important discoveries described in the video though was the one stilla of the Mayans has historical relevance. This discovery helped the archeologists to put together a oft better picture of history and of life in Maya time. It is as boney to written document as the historians are going to get, which makes it so cool that they found this discovery. Another interesting thing I found in the video was the disap pearance of language of hieroglyphics.I didnt know that Mayas were forced away from that language, and that many now did not know how to point it. I just kind of thought of it as a cold language not as one that was a native language that had been purposely eliminated. That was one of the most interesting and saddest things that I found in the video. I wonder if the language of hieroglyphics had stayed more relevant if it would be easier for historians to call back information about the culture, because they wouldnt have to do as much language depiction.