Scholars and the modern Maya can now read the majority of glyphs, like these from Copan. They understand how the ancient language was spoken compared to modern Maya and have begun to grasp the ...

In this feature, you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Maya stela, or dedicatory stone monument. You can both read the ancient Maya (transcribed using the Roman ...

archaeologists called it the Tikal hiatus and chalked it up as a mystery of the ancient Maya. Archaeologists began filling in the gap in the 1960s, when they noticed an odd glyph scattered around ...

Dynastic snakehead emblem glyphs at other sites also refer to ... The Maya built one of the most powerful empires in the world. The ancient Maya civilization conquered the territories of Belize ...

The city of Copán is home to some of the most artistically complex stelas created by ancient Maya people. These objects bear intricate ... Yet he also chose to depict the glyphs as detailed and as ...