Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A vertical column of 10 glyphic words, uncovered last year in ruins in Guatemala, is unreadable even by the most expert scholars, but they know what it means ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study claims that Altar Q, made by the Maya in the eighth century A.D., may convey a deeper ...

Researchers excavating the ruins of an ancient pyramid in northeastern Guatemala have discovered examples of the earliest known Maya writing, produced between 300 B.C. and 200 B.C. The discovery shows ...

The linguistic epigraphy of Maya Writing: recent advances and questions for future research / Søren Wichmann -- Chontal linguistic influence in ancient Maya writing: intransitive positional verbal ...

Newly discovered hieroglyphs show that the Maya were writing at a complex level 150 years earlier than previously thought. The glyphs, which date to about 250 B.C., were found on preserved painted ...

An ancient Maya document, long dismissed as a fake, is not only the real thing, but it’s the oldest-known book in the Americas. Researchers believe the Grolier codex dates back to the early 13th ...