For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Archeological research suggests pok-ta-pok played both a religious and political role in Maya culture, being used in rituals or to settle disputes. Hieroglyphs also reveal that, for much of its ...

The stone is carved in the style of Teotihuacan, but it’s also covered with Maya hieroglyphs, which tell the tale of the conquest. After the Entrada, there are traces of Teotihuacan’s presence ...

The Secretariat of Culture of the Government of Mexico, in collaboration with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), has announced the discovery of a fascinating panel containing ...

Deep in the jungles of northeastern Chiapas state in southern Mexico lies Palenque, a Late Classic Maya city known for its detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions and sculpted reliefs. These highly ...

Together with historical data from transcribed Maya hieroglyphic texts from other sites, the discovery, at Ucanal in northern Guatemala, provides a unique glimpse of the political instability that ...

Solid evidence that ancient Maya people marked dying stars or passing comets continues to elude archaeologists. Several early codices and stones may have recorded hieroglyphs that together mean ...

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 ...