Among the new finds are Mayan glyphs that make the earliest-known mention of what’s now central Mexico, where Teotihuacan was located. “The inscriptions found near the altar refer to ‘the ...

Macri is the founder of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project (MHDP), based at UC Davis. The goal of MHDP is to make available a comprehensive database of glyphs (signs) to scholars and serious ...

The writing system was made up of Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, and out of all Mesoamerican writing systems, it is by far the most deciphered and understood. It is made up of a series of ...

Only four Maya codices are known to have survived. And one key to the glyphs from that time was saved: a manuscript that Landa wrote in 1566 about his contact with the Maya. It recorded what he ...

The Secretariat of Culture of the Government of Mexico, in collaboration with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), has announced the discovery of a fascinating panel containing ...

Although linked by language and religion, Maya cities frequently clashed. As historians sift through Palenque’s visual treasures and decode the intricacies of its glyphs, they have learned how ...

Amazingly, in spite of Champollion’s example, almost nobody did this with the Maya glyphs. Diego de Landa, who was appointed Bishop of Yucatan, Mexico, in 1547, produced what he called an ...

and human bones inscribed with Mayan glyphs. Outside the chamber, they found a broken royal stela. Jade mask In order to reconstruct the six-inch-tall mask, Estrada-Belli’s team reassembled 33 ...

The calendrical glyphs that frame the scene date it to 730 CE at the height of the Maya civilization, during the Late Classic Period (600-900 CE). Other glyphs on the panel mention the dedication ...