Linda Schele

Linda Schele (October 30, 1942 – April 18, 1998) was an American Mesoamerican archaeologist who was an expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography. She played a central role in the decoding of much of the Maya script. 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.

She was from Hendersonville, Tennessee, a northern suburb of Nashville. Her mother, Ruby Richmond, was active in historic preservation at Historic Rock Castle in the 1980s. Provided by Wikipedia