The ancient script of the Maya baffled scholars ... which peaked around A.D. 250-900, the Maya people of Mesoamerica are known to have been great astronomers who also developed sophisticated ...

The writing system was made up of Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, and out of all Mesoamerican writing systems, it is by far the most deciphered and understood. It is made up of a series of ...

Is your knowledge of the ancient Maya as extraordinary as their pyramids?

In effect, these fragments might be evidence of an early stage of Maya script, he said ... He added that it's unclear where in Mesoamerica this calendrical system began. These two lines of ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a ... more than just squiggles—it was script.” Under layers of dirt and ...

the question has long interested both biologists and anthropologists who wonder how and why cacao became so important to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Maya and Aztecs, both of ...

“We worked with historians who were experts on [Maya] culture to learn about what part of the trajectory of the ancient Mesoamerica area we would draw from,” Carter tells Men’s Health.

GUATEMALA CITY, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A new high-tech study has revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including 417 previously unknown cites linked by what may be the world's first highway ...