How Did They Decipher the Ancient Mayan Writing?

Question

The Mayans unlike the Egyptians left no Rosetta stone. And unlike the Aztecs there was no contact between their civilization and the conquering Europians.

Yet they have deciphered most of the Mayan script. How?

I can't believe one one person has answered.

Answer 1

Following the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, many Maya dictionaries, glossaries and prayer books appeared. These are an important resource in the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphics. The Maya also learned in the sixteenth century to record their own languages using Roman letters, and later Maya works do not feature hieroglyphic writing, but a phonetic rendering of Maya languages in Roman script.


http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/writing.html
http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc04eng.html

Answer 2

you're top all we are able to do is wait and wait. we are actually not some distance from that day anyhow. oh and one greater ingredient, the Mayans existed way in the past the Aztecs whom have been those that fought against the Spaniards. there isn't probable an answer to why they left their cities.