Breaking the Maya Code
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Breaking the Maya Code is a landmark book that chronicles the history and breakthroughs in deciphering ancient Maya hieroglyphic writing.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Breaking the Maya Code Context triple: [Michael D. Coe, notableWork, Breaking the Maya Code]
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Schele–Thompson Maya god catalog
The Schele–Thompson Maya god catalog is a scholarly classification system that organizes and identifies deities in ancient Maya iconography and texts, developed by Linda Schele and John S. Thompson.
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The Ancient Maya
The Ancient Maya is a seminal archaeological and historical study that comprehensively examines the civilization, culture, and achievements of the Maya people of Mesoamerica.
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Maya codices
The Maya codices are a small surviving collection of pre-Columbian bark-paper books that record the ancient Maya’s astronomical, calendrical, and ritual knowledge.
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Grolier Codex (Maya Codex of Mexico)
The Grolier Codex, also known as the Maya Codex of Mexico, is one of the few surviving pre-Hispanic Maya screenfold books, notable for its astronomical content and status as one of the oldest known books from the Americas.
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The Decipherment of Linear B
The Decipherment of Linear B is a landmark scholarly work by John Chadwick that explains how the Bronze Age Linear B script was decoded and shown to represent an early form of Greek.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Breaking the Maya Code Target entity description: Breaking the Maya Code is a landmark book that chronicles the history and breakthroughs in deciphering ancient Maya hieroglyphic writing.
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A.
Schele–Thompson Maya god catalog
The Schele–Thompson Maya god catalog is a scholarly classification system that organizes and identifies deities in ancient Maya iconography and texts, developed by Linda Schele and John S. Thompson.
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B.
The Ancient Maya
The Ancient Maya is a seminal archaeological and historical study that comprehensively examines the civilization, culture, and achievements of the Maya people of Mesoamerica.
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C.
Maya codices
The Maya codices are a small surviving collection of pre-Columbian bark-paper books that record the ancient Maya’s astronomical, calendrical, and ritual knowledge.
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D.
Grolier Codex (Maya Codex of Mexico)
The Grolier Codex, also known as the Maya Codex of Mexico, is one of the few surviving pre-Hispanic Maya screenfold books, notable for its astronomical content and status as one of the oldest known books from the Americas.
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E.
The Decipherment of Linear B
The Decipherment of Linear B is a landmark scholarly work by John Chadwick that explains how the Bronze Age Linear B script was decoded and shown to represent an early form of Greek.
- F. None of above. chosen
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