Archaeologists reported that the script sample, discovered at San Bartolo in northeastern Guatemala, is clear evidence that the Maya were writing more than 2,300 years ago. This is a few centuries ...

The ancient script of the Maya baffled scholars for centuries. Widely viewed as one of the greatest civilizations of the Western Hemisphere, which peaked around A.D. 250-900, the Maya people of ...

Eleven of those fragments, including the “7 Deer” glyph, have Maya script painted on them, and they’re some of the oldest examples of Mesoamerican writing that archaeologists have found so far.

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya script. Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes ...

Her current project, cataloguing a Native language preserved in an intricate and complex script, would likely have impressed Sequoyah himself. Macri is the founder of the Maya Hieroglyphic ...

NARRATOR: Maya scribes were forced to learn European script. MICHAEL COE: The writing system totally died out in the centuries that followed the Spanish conquest. I mean, people were probably ...

"With the Maya script, which was so publicly present on stelae [big inscribed stone pillars] and buildings, it's the opposite. It was there to be understood." The Maya script was used for about ...

Researchers began decoding the glyphic language of the ancient Maya long ago, but the Internet is helping them finish the job and write the history of this enigmatic Mesoamerican civilization.