How a Soviet scientist deciphered the Maya script

It was Yuri Knorozov who found the key to reading the texts of this ancient civilization. And only 40 years after his epochal discovery did he, for the first time, manage to visit Mexico.

Everyone considered the quiet introvert to be an eccentric. He didn't talk much about himself and gained the reputation of an odd genius and a mystical person; the rumors and stories about him were most bizarre. He really loved