The popular Maya stone carving known as Altar Q might have a deeper hidden meaning that represents important dates in the ...

A researcher claims 1,300-year-old Maya hand signs on Altar Q encode Long Count calendar dates, revealing a potential second ...

A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent ...

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A new study of the Altar Q of Copan in Honduras has revolutionized the archaeological community. This piece, carved in the ...

During a conference on August 12, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that workers from the Ministry of Culture’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) had found a ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered a Mayan tomb estimated to be from 350 C.E. deep in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a discovery lead researcher Francisco Estrada-Belli has described as akin to ...

John Ydstie talks with Arthur Demarest, Ingram Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., about the discovery of Mayan hieroglyphs in Guatemala. A hurricane last summer ...

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) -- Southwestern College’s new Health and Wellness Center is a few weeks from completion and already redefining the school’s infamous corner lot. It also includes a nod to an ...

A page of a historic Mayan manuscript, which depicts the Mayan calendar (Credit: Getty Images) Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories. Three ...