Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that numbers played a significant role in their culture—there are few documents that don't contain at least some. As you might ...

In 1832, Rafinesque declared in his newsletter, the Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge, that the dots and bars seen in Maya glyphs (like these at left, from the Dresden Codex) represented ...

King of kings. The dynastic emblem glyph of the Snake kings shows up across the Maya region. CONACULTA, INAH, MEXICO “I think they changed the way politics were done. I think they created ...

Several Maya sites now show that their royal dynasties ... Dynastic snakehead emblem glyphs at other sites also refer to these so-called Snake Kings and Queens. The Kaanu'l dynasty is thought ...

Catherwood struggled to copy the stelae and glyphs he uncovered at Copán because the form and style of Maya art was completely new to him. There was little light through the canopy to draw by. Compare ...

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