His name is known all over the world.
I know that we still don’t think about HIS birth, existence, or death…
However, I am CONVINCED that this should not be the case… It is unthinkable; we simply have no moral right to do this. After all, HIS—our fellow Kharkiv resident—contribution to science rightfully ranks among the greatest achievements of the past 20th century.
A genius accomplished what no one thought possible—he uncovered one of the most fascinating mysteries of modern science.
Although he had never been to Mexico, HE accomplished what many scholars from various countries—who had spent years conducting field research—had failed to achieve. Without ever leaving his office, he deciphered an ancient script based on the texts of three surviving manuscripts, which later allowed him to come up with the defensive phrase: “I am an armchair scholar. There’s no need to climb pyramids to work with texts.”
Thanks to his decipherment of the Maya script, the world learned about the rulers and priests, artists and poets who lived millennia ago.
Many of us dream of fame and great discoveries, without giving a thought to the price. Yet the price was that on March 30, 1999, in complete solitude, in the hallway of a city hospital, the Genius died. The man whose achievements were recognized by the world passed away, forgotten and unneeded, from a stroke and the resulting pulmonary edema. In Kharkiv—the hometown of Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov—there is still not even a memorial plaque, let alone a monument.
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