Archaeologists working in the dense jungles of northern Guatemala have uncovered the remains of an ancient Maya city that ...

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like Chicomuseltec and Choltí, have disappeared or are close to extinction, others, ...

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 ...

"He was the first person to successfully demonstrate the phonetic nature of Mayan hieroglyphic writing," Kettunen told RFE/RL by e-mail. "However, it took a while before his work was acknowledged ...

“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 ...

“Maya hieroglyphic writing, used for close to 2,000 years, is among the most inventive ever created,” Houston told Artnet News. “Its well-documented history, pictorial richness, and ...

MEXICO CITY, April 11 (Reuters) - 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 ...

"In this Mayan site it is rare to find hieroglyphic writing, let alone a complete text; It hasn't happened for more than 11 years," Pérez said in a statement, adding the scoreboard was probably ...

The sons and daughters of the Mayan elites were forced to abandon hieroglyphic writing and learn to use the Latin alphabet, and most of the books written by that time, known as codices ...