Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An anthropologist believes he uncovered a second script on Altar Q, one of the most famous and elaborately carved Mayan monuments, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study claims that Altar Q, made by the Maya in the eighth century A.D., may convey a deeper ...

A glyph representing a day called “7 Deer” on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use of the Maya calendar, one ...

Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it. A bar-and-dot symbol for the number “7” is drawn above a deer ...

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Archaeologists say they have found the earliest-yet evidence of a Mesoamerican calendar in fragments of painted murals made in what is now Guatemala over 2,000 years ago. The murals were found in a ...

The calendar was among the achievements of a culture that also developed a writing system encompassing 800 glyphs, with the earliest examples also from San Bartolo. The Maya built temples, pyramids, ...

The Maya used "sign language" on an altar around 1,300 years ago, and these signs may represent important dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims. "This is the oldest text where, to ...

An undated artists reconstruction of the ceremonial structures dating to about 200 BC to 300 BC at the San Bartolo Preclassic ancient Maya site in Guatemala where evidence was found for the earliest ...