63 years since the discovery of the tomb of Mayan King Pakal located inside the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, Chiapas (southern state of Mexico), researchers have deciphered the T514 glyph ...

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 ...

Literary critics, cultural scholars and aficionados of the Mayans, the only fully literate people of the pre-Columbian Americas, have lined up to call the first fully illustrated survey of two ...

Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Maya predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date ...

A British historian whose monumental analysis of the various world civilizations is contained in his twelvevolume A STUDY OF HISTORY, ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE is well known to lecture audiences in the United ...

Brandeis MakerLab Maker in Residence Clara Alexander discusses her work on the Glyph Block Project. The Glyph Block Project is based on archaeological materials recovered from the ancient Maya site of ...

Milwaukee Public Museum just opened its latest traveling exhibition this week and it covers some familiar ground. "Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed" is the largest exhibition about the ancient Maya ever ...