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 ...

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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 ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing.

In Calakmul, an ancient Mayan lowland city so powerful it was once called the “Kingdom of the Snake", a substructure known as Building II was also visited by Donaldson’s team, which ...

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 ...