Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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Uh, they're, they're, I mean, yeah, look for, yeah.
It'd be hard to find.
It's a little face.
It's a little hard to find.
Yeah, Kimi's a really nice one.
That's actually the skull over there.
That's a really easy one.
That's just death.
We know that one.
That's an easy one.
Well, the thing about Maya writing is that it's not made for you.
It's not made for me.
The Maya writing system, the amount of people who were literate in ancient Maya society
You're talking maybe 1% can read and write really well.
I could maybe go up to 10% that can read something or understand something, but not pass that.
It's designed by and for a really small ruling elite.
It's designed to be secretive knowledge.
You know, when you think of writing today, we think of it as something that is almost democratizing.
It's like, oh, I'm gonna print something out and it's gonna be really, really efficient.