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

For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and ...

Archaeologists working in the dense jungles of northern Guatemala have uncovered the remains of an ancient Maya city that ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like Chicomuseltec and Choltí, have disappeared or are close to extinction, others, ...

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 ...

inscribed with Maya hieroglyphs. But it’s that other island across the water, where a radio mast rises high over a compound, that I keep turning to. My guide Eulogio López Garcia, or ‘Locho ...

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For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history. Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya ...

A preliminary study revealed that the inscriptions refer to a lost Mayan town by the name of Keh Witz Nal or “Deer Mountain,” which the tablet says was founded May 12, 569 CE. The hieroglyphs ...