LiveScience: Archaeologists excavating a pyramid complex in the Guatemalan jungle have uncovered the earliest example of Mayan writing ever found.

This paper summarizes several orthographic conventions pertaining to the usage of phonetic signs in Maya writing. These conventions have been recognized during the last twentyfive years and have been ...

Excavators of a pyramid in northeastern Guatemala announced the discovery of the earliest known Maya writing.

This essay proposes a hypothesis that Mixe-Zoquean speakers-more specifically Mixeans-were involved in the initial stages and subsequent development of the Maya hieroglyphic writing system, traces of ...

The linguistic epigraphy of Maya Writing: recent advances and questions for future research / Søren Wichmann -- Chontal linguistic influence in ancient Maya writing: intransitive positional verbal ...

Maya writing also was often accompanied by images, so researchers could compare the actions depicted in the images with their translation. The researchers who claimed to decipher the Isthmian script ...

Symbols write new chapter in Maya historyThis mural of the Maya corn god is among the works of art found in San Bartolo, Guatemala. A new discovery at this site suggests Maya writing is older than ...

An excavation of Maya ruins in Guatemala, by University of New Hampshire archaeologist William Saturno, has revealed that a Mayan writing system was in use centuries earlier than previously ...

Mayan glyphs were also generally spared in temples, but a Spanish bishop, Diego de Landa, famously burned most Mayan texts in the 1500s. Archaeologists continue to find earlier and earlier examples of ...

The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books. For ...