Dr. James Fitzsimmons

But in the Catholic church?

Yeah.

No way.

He burns like almost all of the indigenous Maya books, uh, has this giant, like big bonfire.

He burns almost everything he can find, gets promoted to be the, to be Bishop of Yucatan and goes on his merry way.

But there we go.

That's it.

Uh,

That alphabet formed the basis of the discovery of hieroglyphs, of how to actually, that was our Rosetta Stone.

So even though the sounds were kind of off, they were close enough.

It gives you something.

It gave us something.

And even weirder, so the Cold War, right?

The Cold War plays in this too.

So there's a Soviet code breaker.

who winds up sort of promoting this idea that there's a syllabic component to the inscriptions.

So there's, prior to that point, we thought that there was like, we call it logographs.

So like, think of like one glyph equals one word, right?

He basically was saying, well, no, there's actually some that are one glyph per one sound, right?

Anyway, the Soviet codebreaker comes up with this, and he breaks the Maya code, like the initial Maya.