Meet Maya Beverly, a 10-year-old newspaper publisher from Champaign.

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 Aztecs. Discover what they found.

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 ...

Deep beneath Mexico’s jungles, divers have uncovered the world’s longest submerged cave — and inside lie the haunting remains of the ancient Maya. Bones, artifacts, and Ice Age creatures are rewriting ...

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