Pretty cool to hear what people thought of as a dead and ancient language.
PBS ran a great show on interpreting the written language and how they began re-teaching the children. Cracking the Maya Code:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mayacode/
It's a story within a story because the guy who helped crack the code was a child who was there with a parent, and just intuitively figured out things that the experts were stuck on.