Sentences with phrase «maya hieroglyphic writing»
Episode 4: A Report of the Committee is comprised of a digitally distributed installation view of The Art of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing, a 1971 exhibition at the Carpenter Center; a floor - to - ceiling curtain segment made of cream - pink silk chiffon; and the original 1960 Report document placed inside a vitrine sited in relation to the curtain.
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The Maya studied astronomy, composed music and wrote scroll - like books, or «codices,» in elegant hieroglyphics, the most advanced writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas.
The name means «Obscure Writing» in Maya and refers to the south - side annex door, whose lintel depicts a priest with a vase etched with hieroglyphics that have yet to be successfully translated.