Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer of the 72nd edition of the A.W. Mellon lecture series. Stephen D. Houston of Brown University will deliver the 72nd A. W. Mellon ...
A Yale University archeologist seeking refuge from the hungry insects of the Guatemalan jungle has solved the mystery of "Site Q," the presumed source of exquisite Mayan hieroglyphs that started to ...
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A University of Texas art history professor has deciphered a reference in Maya hieroglyphs to the so-called doomsday date of Dec. 21, 2012, and has found that there is no prediction about the end of ...
Ancient hieroglyphics painted in a stairway near a Maya ambassador's burial tell the tale of his elite but tumultuous life nearly 1,300 years ago, a new study finds. The ambassador, a man named Ajpach ...
Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science introduces a new generation of explorers to what is known about the Maya and what more can be discovered. Dr. David Stuart, the ...
This project, run by Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, has a lofty goal: record and disseminate information about all known ancient Maya inscriptions and their associative art. On ...
NOVA chronicles the 200-year worldwide quest by linguists, mathematicians, artists, architects, archeologists, and others to decipher the Maya hieroglyphs. describes where the Maya region is located.