Yuri Knorozov identified syllabic signs in this civilization’s script, most sources of which were destroyed by Diego de Landa. This civilization used fig-bark to make a type of paper called huun (“hoon”). As a funerary monument for a long-reigning ajaw (“ah-HOW”) named Pakal the Great, (-5[1])this civilization (10[1])built the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque. 394-year periods known as baktun (10[1])(“BAHK-toon”) are used in this civilization’s base-20 (10[1])timekeeping, (10[2])attested (10[1])in books like the Dresden Codex. Popular misinterpretations of this civilization’s Long Count (10[1])calendar sparked the idea that the world would end in 2012. For 10 points, which civilization built sites like Chichén Itzá (“CHEE-chen eets-HAH”) around the Yucatán Peninsula? (10[1])■END■