Hieroglyphics painted on plaster and stone at a pyramid in the Guatemalan jungle may be the earliest known example of Mayan writing. The glyphs date from between 200 BC and 300 BC, which suggests ...

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The book’s design shows attention to visual detail, with page numbers shown in Maya glyphs as well as our familiar numerals, and with text set on paper that looks like stone. Some hands-on activities ...

Next to K’awiil was a glyph representing a lord, possibily Juun Ajaw, one of the Hero Twins. All over the wall was seeing bits and pieces of legible, decipherable Classic era Mayan art.

The subject matter also treads similar ground to other Maya texts. “Even though we can't read it directly, they're writing about things that look familiar to us,” he says.

This paper summarizes several orthographic conventions pertaining to the usage of phonetic signs in Maya writing. These conventions have been recognized during the last twentyfive years and have been ...

The earliest single Mayan glyph — which could have stood for a person's name or might have been a sign on a calendar — dates to about 600 B.C. But it isn't considered writing.

Mexico City - Experts are studying the first Mayan hieroglyphic script dealing with the life of a high priest, his blood sacrifices and acts of penance, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and ...

His most notable accomplishment is that he establishes for the first time that two millennia of Mayan writings produced in various writing systems and media -- from stone glyphs and paper ...