Mesoamerican cultures shaped the history of Central America through remarkable achievements in architecture, science, and society. Among the most influential were the Maya, who thrived in present-day ...

A nearly 1,500-year-old Mayan stone monument, ... The Mayans built the massive city of Tikal, developed a hieroglyphic writing system and their own calendar, ...

It's not coming from anywhere in the literature or in the Mayan hieroglyphic writing." Over at Discovery News, ... The Maya, who lived in Central America between A.D. 250 and 900, ...

Cracking the Maya Code. The story behind the centuries-long decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs Airing April 8, 2008 at 9 pm on PBS Aired April 8, 2008 on PBS ...

Rusty Barrett, professor in the UK Department of English and Linguistics Program, studied Mayan hieroglyphic writing and Mayan linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received ...

With the pieces dating as far back as 400 B.C., ongoing analysis reveals that hieroglyphic writing and the use of the calendar may have been more established during the Preclassic than originally ...

After translating the hieroglyphics it was revealed that it was dedicated on January 25, AD 564 and tells the story of the rise to power of a Mayan princess in a brutal, back-and-forth battle ...

The Mayan world is our family’s favorite travel destination.As for Ms. Fowler’s statement, “There is no Rosetta Stone for this culture,” the observations of Diego de Landa, ...

A stone scoreboard used in an ancient soccer-like ball game has been discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, archaeologists said this week.

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.

Like most people, I enjoy burritos. Unlike most people, I also enjoy learning about ancient hieroglyphic writing systems, because I’m Indiana—er—Language Jones. A while back, I bought Andrea ...