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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: William Jones, Karl Verner, Yuri Knorozov, Michael Witzel, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Jussi Halla-aho, Holger Pedersen, Eric P. Hamp, Hugh MacDiarmid, Asim Peco, Girolamo Maggi, August Schleicher, Joseph Wright, Truman Michelson, Bernhard Karlgren, Ian Hancock, Stefan Georg, Mary Haas, Robert Blust, Otto Schrader, Kenneth H. Jackson, Jose Maria Sanchez Carrion, Lyle Campbell, Winfred P. Lehmann, Eugene Helimski, Terrence Kaufman, Alvar Ellegard, John Richardson, Emile-Louis Burnouf, Karl Brugmann, Sigmund Feist, Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin, Jeffrey Heath, Larry Trask, Christopher Ehret, Samuel Gyarmathi, Johannes Schmidt, Oswald Szemerenyi, T. F. O'Rahilly, Michael Fortescue, Johan Ihre, Kazimieras B ga, Jay Jasanoff, Ladislav Zgusta, Calvert Watkins, Hermann Paul, Berthold Delbruck, Anthony Allen, Sarah Thomason, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, Svetlana Burlak, Paul Kretschmer, Ian Roberts, John Bengtson, Warren Cowgill, Eliza Gutch, Janos Sajnovics, Herbert Hunger, Craig Melchert, Ives Goddard, Eduard Prokosch, Birgit Anette Olsen, Carsten Hoeg, Jens Elmegard Rasmussen, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Ibn Duraid, George Cardona, Hermann Osthoff, Vladimir Napolskikh, John A. Hawkins, Paul Mus, Jorgen Alexander Knudtzon, Hermann Teuchert, Johannes Despauterius. Excerpt: Yuriy Valentinovich Knorozov (alternatively, Knorosov; in Russian: November 19, 1922 - March 31, 1999) was a Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, who is particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. Knorozov was born in a village near Kharkiv in Ukraine, at that time the capital of the newly formed Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. His parents were Russian intellectuals, and his paternal...
