In writing about Maya hieroglyphs, Toronto author Laurie Coulter tackles a very complex topic. This book requires sequential reading and thinking time for comprehension; trying to skim it for ...

This essay proposes a hypothesis that Mixe-Zoquean speakers-more specifically Mixeans-were involved in the initial stages and subsequent development of the Maya hieroglyphic writing system, traces of ...

The hieroglyphics, found on a block of stone in the Mayan pyramid Las Pinturas in San Bartolo, north-eastern Guatemala, were dated to 200 BC to 300 BC, placing Mayan writing together with the ...

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 ...

Hieroglyphics found on a Mayan temple in Central America suggest a "world war" was fought between two rival superpowers in the seventh and eighth centuries. The evidence was hidden by thick jungle ...

Ancient hieroglyphics painted in a stairway near a Maya ambassador's burial tell the tale of his elite but tumultuous life nearly 1,300 years ago, a new study finds. The ambassador, a man named ...

ALL who are interested in American archæology (and especially those who do not read German) must feel greatly indebted to Dr. Brinton for his “Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics,” for in this ...

By the 18th century, I don't think anybody could write. NARRATOR: Knowledge of the ancient Maya script soon vanished. It would take centuries of struggle before the hieroglyphs could be read again.

It displays Mayan hieroglyphic writing surrounding two players standing next to a ball, according to Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

Around the outside edge, 18 Mayan hieroglyphics surround the figures. This is the first complete set of Mayan hieroglyphics to be found at the Chichén Itzá site in over 11 years, archaeologist ...