How far had education devel oped during the Maya period?
The Maya writing system is considered by archaeologists to be the most sophisticated system ever developed in Mesoamerica.
The Mayans wrote using 800 individual signs or glyphs, paired in columns that read together from left to right and top to bottom. Mayan glyphs represented words or syllables that could be combined to form any word or concept in the Mayan language, including numbers, time periods, royal names, titles, etc.
Hieroglyphic inscriptions were either carved in stone and wood on Maya monuments and architecture, or painted on paper, plastered walls and pottery. The unit of the Maya writing system is the glyphic cartouche, which is equivalent to the words and sentences of a modern language. Maya cartouches included at least three or four glyphs and as many as fifty. Each cartouche contained various glyphs, as well as prefixes and suffixes. There is no Maya alphabet.
