When, in the 1960s, the hieroglyphs—the most sophisticated writing system created in the New World—were at last beginning to be deciphered, a new picture of these people emerged. Mayan art and ...

Mexican pyramids are a key feature of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. While they share some similarities with Egyptian ...

That of Chumayel, with those of Tizimin and Mani, have the greatest value for the study of Maya civilisation ... been transcribed directly from the hieroglyphic manuscripts afterwards destroyed ...

The Maya believed that mirrors possessed magical ... One carving from the city of Toniná in southern Mexico, its hieroglyphics tell us, is of a king from Palenque who was captured in a.d. 711.

Champollion and Egyptian hieroglyphs, Magnus Celsius and Staveless Runes, Michael Ventris and Linear B, Edward Hincks and Akkadian cuneiform, Yuri Knorozov and Maya glyphs. These were undeniable ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, ...

Excavations there uncovered a rich, undiscovered history portrayed in numerous hieroglyphic texts as well as the archaeological record; this history is in the process of being documented for a volume ...

For millennia, the Maya people of Guatemala have been practising a unique agricultural system that fuses sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation. Based on the ...

The first three episodes of Andor season 2 introduce another rebel cell operating out in the galaxy known as the Maya Pei Brigade. Cassian (Diego Luna) stumbles across a group of survivors ...

Maya Jama just made one thing clear: underboobs are back for summer 2025. Taking to Instagram, the Love Island presenter shared a series of snaps from her holiday in Thailand - and she's serving ...

Olette-Pelletier has become the first Egyptologist since Champollion to climb to the top of the obelisk, a feat that allowed him to decipher encrypted messages within its hieroglyphs. The monument, a ...