Yuri Knorozov

Yuriy Valentinovich Knorozov (alternatively Knorosov; Ю́рий Валенти́нович Кноро́зов; November 19, 1922 – March 31, 1999) was a Soviet linguist epigrapher and ethnographer, who is particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

Quotes

• There are no indecipherable writings, any writing system produced by man can be read by man.
  • Epigraphic Atlas of Petén Phase 1

• What created by a human mind, can be solved by another human mind. From this point of view, unsolved problems do not exist and can not exist in any area of science.
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