The Mayan system is not hieroglyphs. The Mayans created a syllabary where each separate syllable has a symbol. The Cherokee also use a syllabary. The Japanese also use a syllabary. When a language...
Hieroglyphics were invented as more complex form of writing than simply drawing pictures. Early hieroglyphic symbols looked like the object or idea they were meant to convey. For example, the early...
The Spanish were catholic and thought the Mayans were savages and less than human. So they thought that the books that the Mayans kept about their history and their religion (called codices) were...