Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

“In this Mayan site, it is rare to find hieroglyphic writing, let alone a complete text,” said Francisco Perez, one of the archaeologists coordinating the investigations in the Chichanchob ...

However, the academic admits he 'can only speculate' exactly what the writing says. Before the alphabet, humans relied on hieroglyphics, according to Professor Schwartz, who found the cylinders in ...

said they were looking forward to more evidence that the inscriptions represent an alphabet rather than another type of writing system. “When you only have a few very short inscriptions ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay ...

Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) This form of writing may have ...

Using carbon-14 dating techniques, researchers confirmed the ages of the tombs, the artifacts, and the writing. "Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime ...

The sons and daughters of the Mayan elites were forced to abandon hieroglyphic writing and learn to use the Latin alphabet, and most of the books written by that time, known as codices ...