Everyone here crawling to uphold the honour of Bishop de Landa seem to be forgetting that he burnt hundreds if not thousands of Mayan codices, in a tragedy for the study of history that's comparable to the fire at the libary of Alexanderia.
Also, his transcription was fundamentaly flawed so it didn't work when later scholars tried to use it for translation that's why it was ignored for decades until Knorozov's work
kingofcanada1 t1_ix48y6d wrote
Reply to Yuri Knorozov: The Maverick Scholar Who Cracked The Maya Code by tyrannosauru
Everyone here crawling to uphold the honour of Bishop de Landa seem to be forgetting that he burnt hundreds if not thousands of Mayan codices, in a tragedy for the study of history that's comparable to the fire at the libary of Alexanderia.
Also, his transcription was fundamentaly flawed so it didn't work when later scholars tried to use it for translation that's why it was ignored for decades until Knorozov's work