Tackling the 2,000-year-old mystery of the collapse of the Mayan culture takes a large and diverse set of experts, and the findings can help us today.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The ...

They’re Mayan—Sort of. By Taylor Jones. Nov 14, 2014 1:44 PM. Glyphs at the Chipotle on 15th and Walnut, in Philadelphia. But what do they mean? Photo by Taylor Jones ...

Dr. David Stuart, the world's leading authority on Mayan hieroglyphs and art, will serve as the keynote speaker for the 5th Annual Witte Museum Texas Trailblazers Luncheon on April 12, 2016.

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

On May 21, 697, according to Mayan hieroglyphs, the city of Bahlam Jol “burned for the second time.” But, like much of Mayan writing and history, the record remained mysterious to modern Maya ...

Archaeologists have discovered a royal tomb belonging to a ‘snake dynasty’ more than a thousand years old, containing treasure, hieroglyphs and a human body.

We know that in 1939, at just 17 years of age, Knorozov enrolled in the Faculty of History at the university in Kharkiv, where he studied Egyptian hieroglyphs, among other subjects.

Today, Mam and other Mayan languages are expanding their reach, as indigenous people from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala are spreading them in the US through immigration.

The growth of Mayan communities in the US has also given their ancient languages new platforms, adding to a long and rich history. Though the ruins and carved hieroglyphs of ancient Mayan cities ...