[Publius6961]

Ignore the political correctness. Academics can't help themselves. The lack of useful information (science, mathematics, philosophy) delegates this culture to the primitive category, no matter what attempts are made to glorify it.

The remarkable thing about the progress of deciphering this primitive language is that it was apparently harder and longer-lasting than wartime military codes!

The discovery that the symbols also represent sounds is also quite a feat, if true.

[indcons]

I’d say that the Spanish conquistadors were as primitive and barbaric as the Mayans, if not more.