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Thompson initially supported Morley's contention that history was not to be found in the inscriptions, however in light of the work of Tatiana Proskouriakoff in the 1960s with her article ….

Piedras Negras stela, Thompson confessed that he was “ completely mistaken .” His attempted decipherments were based on ideographic rather than linguistic principles.

In his later years, he resisted the notion that the glyphs have a strong phonetic component, as put forward by Russian linguist Yuri Knorozov.

Thompson noted the weak points in Knorozov ’ s research, and therefore discouraged the majority of the field from taking his work seriously.