A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Linda Schele, David A. Freidel

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

Linda Schele, David A. Freidel

552 pages first pub 1990 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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Recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given the 1st written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the 1st central figures in the effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele & David Frei...

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