ed for an alphabet (about 30) or a syllabary (about 125) . Their system, on the other hand, ceased to include enough sign for a logographic script, as in the Chinese. Therefore, it worked much like other hieroglyphic writing systems of that time. The overall form and usage of the writing system proved to be an important tool used by the Mayans.
             Their hieroglyphic writing system appears in many different forms. The Mayans have produced approximately 5,000 hieroglyphic writings in many different forms and on such things as alters, ornaments, pottery vessels, building walls and inside caves and
             tombs. They have also inscribed on stalae, which are slabs of stone which tell imp
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