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Who discovered the Mayan ruins?

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Well I don't know exactly who discovered this Mayan_hieroglyphs but know one thing that its discovered by European explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries who did not understand it but found its general appearance reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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Dr. Richard Hanson, an archaeologist.

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the spanish (from Spain, not Mexico)

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