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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by CalRobert on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:04AM (#15182407)
If you find this kind of thing interesting, you might want to check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices

It's profoundly depressing to consider what was lost, though.

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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by mbroncano on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @09:32AM (#15183514)
Yes, you could say we'd learn something is the last 500 years.

Mildly related, in the same times, a minority protection office was established and funded to some extent [1] which also incurred in some well known political upheaval.

There's nothing new under the sun.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_of_the_Indians

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