David Roberts

David Roberts is a former academic physicist. He served as the science adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan during the post-Fukushima recovery.

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  1. The Decipherment of Ancient Maya

    Hundreds of stone slabs crowded with carved hieroglyphs have much to tell us about one of the ancient world’s most accomplished and mysterious civilizations. A group of brilliant young epigraph ers, most of them from the United States, are deciphering those hieroglyphs at a pace unimagined only thirty years ago, and important new discoveries seem imminent