Glyphs at the Chipotle on 15th and Walnut, in Philadelphia. But what do they mean? Photo by Taylor Jones ...

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 ...

Dr. David Stuart, the world’s leading authority on Mayan hieroglyphs and art, will serve as the keynote speaker of the 5th Annual Witte Museum Texas T ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly 2,000 years, 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.

"The Maya never, ever, said anything about the world ending at any time — much less this year," says an archaeologist who helped translate the ancient culture's hieroglyphs.

The project could one day lead to a machine translation tool for Mayan iconography and writing. To read more about Mayan hieroglyphs, go to " The Maya Sense of Time." ...

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 ...