Even while the Tork game was being made, the puzzles our hero has to deal with were challanging today's archeologists. The Mayan written language (like the fictional world Tork) uses visual symbols, and as with the game, people are still trying to decipher the code.

But even though every Mayan Indian would have read the language the same way, 20th century code-breakers have bickered about what the symbols mean; does a dog represent a dog, or is it the symbol for the civilisation's god?

Background: Fall of the Mayan Civilisation

From 250AD to about 900AD The Yucatan pennisula, (around the borders of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador) can be called the "Classic Maya" civilisation, with the villages becoming cities and priests carving detailed historys into their monuments.

After then the cultures apparently went into militaristic era, which would subsequently be almost extinguished by the Spanish colonisation in the mid-sixteenth century.

By Nectarine; Minty Hunter, Kate Crawley, Rebekah Farr.