Topic ID #7746 - posted 5/31/2010 3:33 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Advanced Technique, RTI, Used to Decipher Maya Glyphs
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
MEXICO CITY.- As part of most recent studies at Tonina Archaeological Zone, in Chiapas, a technique known as RTI (Reflection Transformation Imaging) is being applied for the first time in Mexico on Maya sculptures, with the aim of documenting the ancient monuments and having more details of inscriptions.
Carlos Pallan Gayol, archaeologist at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), informed that the method has been applied on10 monuments. It allows manipulating light on a photographic sequence in an interactive way, obtaining great quality images.
Pallan, responsible of the Maya Hieroglyphic and Iconographic Heap (AJIMAYA) declared that although other Mesoamerican societies like Zapoteca, Mixe-Zoque and Nahua developed writing, Maya is by far the best understood and deciphered.
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Carlos Pallan Gayol, archaeologist at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), informed that the method has been applied on10 monuments. It allows manipulating light on a photographic sequence in an interactive way, obtaining great quality images.
Pallan, responsible of the Maya Hieroglyphic and Iconographic Heap (AJIMAYA) declared that although other Mesoamerican societies like Zapoteca, Mixe-Zoque and Nahua developed writing, Maya is by far the best understood and deciphered.
Read the rest of the article here.
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