In a significant development in archaeological research, a panel inscribed with Mayan hieroglyphics has been recovered from a ...

No one studying Maya hieroglyphs would get very far without being able to read the 19 numbers that form the base of their numbering system. Can you figure out their numbering system?

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya script. Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes ...

The Glyph Block Project is based on archaeological materials recovered from the ancient Maya site of El Resbalón in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico. In the 1970s, a hieroglyphic stairway consisting of ...

"The Mayan calendar," said Dr ... From these observations, which were recorded daily in hieroglyphics, they computed eclipses, and other astronomical data." As Dr. Spinden explained, the calendar ...

This book is the first in-depth synthesis of the Classic Maya. It is richly informed by new decipherment of hieroglyphs, decades of intensive excavation and survey. Structured by categories of person ...

Hieroglyphics give the date ... And then, all of a sudden, we were in the middle of the most exciting part of Maya history.” The story of the discovery of the Kaanul, or Snakes, and their ...

Palenque’s most notable ruin is the Temple of the Inscriptions, a 90-foot-high pyramid containing some of the most detailed Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. The monument was assumed to ...

Buried beneath it, he says, is a pyramid. In 700-800 C.E., the ancient Maya would ascend a stairway to a temple at the pyramid’s top to offer gifts and sacrifices to the kingdom’s patron deity.

Maya households buried their dead underneath ... Priests recorded their rituals in hieroglyphic books which included astronomical cycles, calendars and history. People believed that the kings ...

"It is rare to find hieroglyphic writing at this Maya site, and even rarer to find a complete text. This hasn't happened in 11 years," archaeologist Francisco Pérez Ruiz explained. A team of ...