Cracking the Maya Code-PBS Nova [PDTV]~Ekolb

Cracking the Maya Code



Original PBS Broadcast Date: April 8, 2008

The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books. For centuries, scholars considered it too complex ever to understand—until recently, when an ingenious series of breakthroughs finally cracked the code and unleashed a torrent of new insights into the Mayas' turbulent past. For the first time, NOVA presents the epic inside story of how the decoding was done—traveling to the remote jungles of southern Mexico and Central America to investigate how the code was broken and what Maya writings now reveal.



Format : AVI

Length : 466 MiB for 56mn 34s 728ms



Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 014 Kbps

Aspect : 496 x 368 (1.348) at 29.970 fps



Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 128 Kbps

Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz



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