Mark Van Stone explains how Maya hieroglyphs are constructed, by writing a modern name in phonetic glyphs. Dr. Van Stone is an expert decipherer and calligrapher; author of "2012 Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya" and coauthor of "Reading the Maya Glyphs" with archaeologist Michael Coe.

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