Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that ... No one studying Maya hieroglyphs would get very far without being able to read the 19 numbers that form the base of their ...

A series of Maya hieroglyphs may look like just so many ... In this feature, you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Maya stela, or dedicatory stone monument.

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha ... a 90-foot-high pyramid containing some of the most detailed Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. The monument was assumed to be a religious ...

They developed intricate hieroglyphs. Mayan writing dates ... and then humans were constructed from wet clay. Like other ancient stories, the Maya tell the tale of a great flood that wiped all ...

Ancestor worship was important and similar to the Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath the floors ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar ... From these observations, which were recorded daily in hieroglyphics, they computed eclipses, and other astronomical ...

The inscription found on the hieroglyphic staircase is the longest inscription found in the Mayan world ... published on ...