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Breaking the Maya Code tells the incredible story of a 200-year struggle to unlock the complex and beautiful Maya hieroglyphic script, which was until recently the world's last major undeciphered writing system. Based on archaeologist and historian Michael Coe's book of the same title, and filmed in over 40 locations in nine countries, this amazing detective story is filled with false leads, rivalries and colliding personalities. The deciphered Maya Code reveals gripping stories of warring city-states, a strange world of kings and queens who regularly shed and burned their blood to invoke the Vision Serpent and a culture shaped by an intricate cosmology that weaves together the lives of humans, the deeds of mythic heroes and the cycles of the planets and the stars. For the six million Maya alive today, a people who had been cut off from their own extraordinary past, the secrets reveals serve as a time machine - uniting them with their own lost history and opening up an invaluable treasure for all of us.
