Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

"He was the first person to successfully demonstrate the phonetic nature of Mayan hieroglyphic writing," Kettunen told RFE/RL by e-mail. "However, it took a while before his work was acknowledged ...

“Maya hieroglyphic writing, used for close to 2,000 years, is among the most inventive ever created,” Houston told Artnet News. “Its well-documented history, pictorial richness, and ...

This is the first discovery in over 11 years of an object with hieroglyphic writing at Chichén Itzá, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. “In this Mayan site ...

“In this Mayan site, it is rare to find hieroglyphic writing, let alone a complete text,” said Francisco Perez, one of the archaeologists coordinating the investigations in the Chichanchob ...

MEXICO CITY, April 11 (Reuters) - A stone scoreboard used in an ancient soccer-like ball game has been discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula ...