On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:08:07PM -0600, Travis H. wrote: > IIRC, it turned out that Egyptian heiroglyphs were actually syllabic, > like Mesopotamian, so no fun there. Mayan, on the other hand, remains > an enigma. I read not long ago that they also had a way of recording > stories on bundles of knotted string, like the end of a mop.
Er, no, Mayan has been decoded: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mayan.htm The knotted string system was an Inca writing system, IIRC. Nico -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
