This mural of the Maya corn god is among the works of art found in San Bartolo, Guatemala. A new discovery at this site suggests Maya writing is older than once thought.

Archaeologists working at the Chichén Itzá site on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico recently made a stunning discovery — a ...

The Maya writing system was very sophisticated and complex, one of the most developed in the region. ... It tells the Mayan creation myth, the history of the K'iche people, ...

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 ...

Although Knorozov is widely credited with deciphering Maya writing by systematically applying phonetic readings to Maya symbols, he admitted to drawing heavily on the work of others, including ...

Find the complete program transcript, including credits for the NOVA program Cracking the Maya Code, originally broadcast on PBS on April 8, 2008.

They were illiterate farmers, builders and servants, but Maya commoners found a way to record their own history -- by burying it within their homes. A new study of the objects embedded in the ...

On May 21, 697, according to Mayan hieroglyphs, the city of Bahlam Jol “burned for the second time.” But, like much of Mayan writing and history, the record remained mysterious to modern Maya ...

Calakmul, lacking either buses or roped-off stairways, is proving to be the largest city of the Late Classic period (A.D. 600-925), when the Maya's great accomplishments in architecture, astronomy ...

As the Maya built out their society even further, they laid the foundations for complex trade networks, advanced irrigation, water purification and farming techniques, warfare, sports, writing ...

The astronomy, calendar, and apocalyptic predictions have been well documented, but there’s one part of Maya history that researchers have yet to agree upon: how the ancient civilization ...