Jocelyne PonceTulane archaeologist Marcello Canuto at work at the site where he and a colleague found Maya hieroglyphics referring to Dec. 21, 2012. The stone, which Canuto said weighs about 60 ...

He also wears protective sports gear. Around the outside edge, 18 Mayan hieroglyphics surround the figures. This is the first complete set of Mayan hieroglyphics to be found at the Chichén Itzá ...

Initial studies suggest that the hieroglyphics date back to May 12, 569 AD, marking the founding of a lost city called Keh Witz Nal, or "Deer Mountain." Notably, the inscriptions also revealed the ...

In March 2001, archeologist Bill Saturno, eager to find shade and rest after a grueling trek through northern Guatemala in search of Maya hieroglyphics, crawled down a looter's trench into the ...

We met with the veteran archaeologist in a brand new museum in the city of Villahermosa, where he kindly translated the hieroglyphics carved on Monument Six of Tortuguero, a Mayan stone from the ...