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 ...

“The greatest difficulty in deciphering Maya writing lies in interpreting the glyphs since they are based on a system that combines ideograph and phonetic elements." They added: “It’s a ...

The Maya writing system was very sophisticated and complex, one of the most developed in the region. The writing system was made up of Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, and out of all ...

Mayan languages had their own writing system, known as Classic Maya. Composed of hieroglyphs, it was only used by those at the top of the social pyramid. "If we want to make a historical ...

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 ...