Ukraine's unexpected ties to Mayan language

The year is 1955.

Kharkiv scientist Yurii Knorozov is on his way to the Institute of Ethnography at his university to defend his PhD thesis.

He doesn’t know if it will end with his degree, or with his arrest.

It wasn’t a typical PhD topic: more than 6,500 miles from the famous ruins of Chichen Itza, he was going to propose a totally new method of deciphering Mayan hieroglyphs.

Knorozov’s findings, which showed how complex their language had been, were controversial because it directly contradicted Marxist founding father Friedrich Engels, who had written of the “barbarism” of people from the region. To go against Marx's thesis meant to become “an enemy of people.”



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