Maya Scribes — Keepers of Glyphs | Heritage Metal Sign

The Maya writing system could express any concept in the spoken language. Scribes trained from childhood to carve stone and paint books. They created the Dresden Codex — the only nearly complete Maya manuscript that survived the Spanish burning of Maya libraries in 1562. Bishop Diego de Landa ordered the books burned, then wrote his own description of Maya writing. Both the destruction and preservation happened in the same year, by the same hand. The glyph blocks, the scribe's brush — in enduring aluminum.

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