This text features copious details about the Maya writing system as well as the Maya calendar and religious practices, including idol worship and human sacrifice. “Landa sat down with Maya speakers ...

Matilde Ical Chen was toasting tortillas over a wood fire for the midday meal when the landslide ripped through the Guatemalan Mayan indigenous village of Queja, burying her mother, sisters and ...

Among the many mysteries surrounding the ancient Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan, one has been especially hard to crack: how did its residents use the many signs and symbols found on its murals and ...

Western languages read left to right. It made left-handed kids in school do that twisty move with their left hands to write anything left to right. Hebrew and Arabic languages, written and ...

Researchers uncover signs of a written Uto-Aztecan language in Teotihuacan’s murals, linking the ancient city’s people to the ...

Danish linguists have achieved a breakthrough that could finally solve one of archaeology's greatest mysteries by deciphering the writing system of ancient Teotihuacan. The discovery reveals that the ...

Unknown ancient writing in Teotihuacan, Mexico, points to early Uto-Aztecan language and the identity of its inhabitants.

Altar Q, a Mayan monument carved approximately 1,300 years ago in Honduras, may reveal a code that has eluded scientists until now. A recent study suggests that the hand signs depicted on this altar ...

The anthropologist claims that the rulers carved on the 1,300-year-old Altar Q are not just striking royal portraits. The way their hands are posed may represent a hidden “sign language” that encodes ...

TELLY’S Maya Jama proves she is a cover star at the launch of a new magazine. The Love Island host, 31, wore black satin for the launch of ex-British Vogue editor Edward Enninful’s new “72” ...

"Many researchers previously thought that the hieroglyphic script was the only script of the Mayan writing system," he said. His research shows that "there are two scripts to the writing system," ...