Cats as muses

Yuri Knorozov, the linguist who deciphered the Maya script, listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work, but the editors always removed her. He always used this photo with Asya as his author photo and became angry whenever editors cropped her out.

Author: Janet Carr

Fashion, beauty and animal loving language consultant from South Africa living in Stockholm, Sweden.

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