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.

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.

Maya priests used manta ray stingers to pierce their earlobes, tongue, forehead, penis and other parts of the anatomy, in painful, bloodletting sacrifices to induce a hallucinogenic state in which ...

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On the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula once stood the great Mayan city of Cobá. Recently this massive stone slab covered in 123 carved glyphs, each one providing more details about the mysterious ...

Decode Stela 3 By Mark Van Stone Posted 04.08.08 NOVA To many of us, Maya hieroglyphs may look like just so many pretty pictures or symbols. But they actually say something, of course, as ...

Of the 10 glyphs, inscribed on plaster and stone, only one has been deciphered. It is believed to be Mayan for "ruler". Another glyph shows a hand, possibly holding a sharp instrument.