Researchers excavating the ruins of an ancient pyramid in northeastern Guatemala have discovered examples of the earliest known Maya writing, produced between 300 B.C. and 200 B.C. The discovery shows ...

Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it. A bar-and-dot symbol for the number “7” is drawn above a deer ...

This essay proposes a hypothesis that Mixe-Zoquean speakers-more specifically Mixeans-were involved in the initial stages and subsequent development of the Maya hieroglyphic writing system, traces of ...

A glyph representing a day called “7 Deer” on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use of the Maya calendar, one ...

Poking through some of the innermost rubble of an ancient pyramid known as Las Pinturas in San Bartolo, Guatemala, graduate student Boris Beltr¿n uncovered a boulder-size chunk of plaster. Mayan ...

As civilizations die, so do their forms of writing, top scholars of ancient cultures found in the first study to examine the extinction of writing systems. The research also showed that ancient ...

Buried within the Las Pinturas pyramid in San Bartolo, Guatemala, thousands of painted plaster mural fragments offer a window into ancient Maya civilization. Two of those fragments form the earliest ...

Locate and research Mayan cities. Help students learn where Mexico and Central America are located. Have them find these areas on a world map. Tell them that the ancient Mayan population numbered in ...