Linda Schele (1942 - 18 April1998 was a noted expert in the field of Mayaepigraphy and iconography. Her assistance was invaluable in the decipherment much of the Maya hieroglyphics. She produced a massive volume of drawings of stelae and inscriptions, which, following her wishes, are free for use to scholars. In 1978, she founded the annual Maya Meetings at The University of Texas at Austin. This article is about the year. ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Maya are people of southern Mexico and northern Central America (Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and El Salvador) with some 3,000 years of history. ... Epigraphy (Greek, επιγραφή - written upon) is the study of inscriptions engraved into stone or other permanent materials, or cast in metal, the science of classifying them, elucidating them and assessing what conclusions can be deduced from them. ... Salvator Mundi is an iconography depicting Christ with his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding an orb. ... Maya hieroglyphics is the system of writing used by the pre-Columbian Maya people to record the Maya language. ... University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (full official name), often UT or Texas for short, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System, the largest public university system in Texas, established in 1883. ...
She died in 1998 of pancreatic cancer. Just before her death, she established the Linda Schele Precolumbian Endowment, which provides financial support for the Linda and David Schele Chair in Mesoamerican Art and Writing at UT Austin. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Pancreatic cancer (also called cancer of the pancreas) is represented by the growth of a malignant tumour within the small pancreas organ. ...
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, LindaSchele graduated from the University of Cincinnati in Education and Art in 1964, and obtained her post graduate degree in Art in 1968.
Schele became a Fellow in pre-Colombian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C in 1975.
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