[vladimir929]

They did have the Mayan language to work with though.

The Minoan language has been likely dead for 2000 years.

That was also the breakthrough with the Rosetta Stone too. That Coptic was a modern version of ancient Egyptian.

[AlbertCory]

Fairly interesting movie. One 18-year-old guy got a MacArthur "genius" grant for his work on that. He presented a scholarly paper at age 12.

[sebastialonso]

what's the movie name?

[AlbertCory]

Breaking the Maya Code

fairly watchable.