On June 5, 2021, within the framework of the exhibition “Eldorado. The Treasures of Native Americans”, the lecture “Mayan Hieroglyphs in Famous Films” was held, organized by the Foundation “Art of the Nations”.
Sergey Vepretskii, a researcher at the Department of America, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about the ancient Maya script, which was lost more than a thousand years ago, showed examples of real hieroglyphs and told the audience the secrets of its reading.
The lecture was held at Vasili’s III of Russia Palace in Moscow and was accompanied by watching famous Hollywood films, such as: 2012, Apocalypto, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skul, Wonder Woman 1984, The Road to El Dorado, etc., in which the audience, together with the lecturer, found ancient hieroglyphs, revealed its meaning, and also discovered which hieroglyphs are real, and which are just drawing for the film.