K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near ...

a specialist in hieroglyphs who has been studying and translating hieroglyphs inscribed on Mayan monuments for decades and directs the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project at the University of ...

Houston. Next year’s A.W. Mellon lectures, the prestigious annual series of scholarly talks hosted by the National Gallery of Art, will look back to Maya hieroglyphics for insights about how ...

"He was the first person to successfully demonstrate the phonetic nature of Mayan hieroglyphic writing," Kettunen told RFE/RL by e-mail. "However, it took a while before his work was acknowledged ...

When, in the 1960s, the hieroglyphs—the most sophisticated writing system created in the New World—were at last beginning to be deciphered, a new picture of these people emerged. Mayan art and ...

Archaeologists at Chichén Itzá unearthed a heavy stone with carvings of two ball players and complete Mayan hieroglyphic text, photos show. Photo from Raquel Moss via Unsplash Carefully digging ...

Solid evidence that ancient Maya people marked dying stars or passing comets continues to elude archaeologists. Several early codices and stones may have recorded hieroglyphs that together mean ...