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Mayans wrote in hieroglyphs for the same reason we write in English or other languages. The Mayans had their own system and symbols that mean different things. And a series of symbols in an order mean a different thing. it wasn't until the Spanish went their a one man sat down with one of the Mayans and got him to translate a few symbols that the rest of the world was able to start to deciphers what they were writing

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