The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya
Stuart helped decipher Maya glyphs as a teenager. Here he turns decades of epigraphy into narrative history rather than another specialist monograph.
Dynasties, wars and cosmology are all here, drawn from inscriptions that were unreadable within living memory. Stuart was a teenager when he began contributing to the decipherment, and writes with the confidence of someone who watched the field transform, while marking carefully where a reading remains contested rather than settled.
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Tyler Cowen
We keep on learning lots about the Maya, and this is the best book to follow what has been going on. Well-written and clear, and it does not numb your mind with details you may not care about.
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