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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The stela, dating from 100 AD, provides an early example of Mayan writing, German expert Nikolai Grube told an event at Guatemala's National Palace of Culture on Tuesday.

Led by Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing, a group of scientists and journalists left Germany Tuesday, on a mission to Guatemala in search of a lost Maya treasure allegedly submerged ...

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 ...

Locate and research Mayan cities. Help students learn where Mexico and Central America are located. Have them find these areas on a world map. Tell them that the ancient Mayan population numbered ...

On May 21, 697, according to Mayan hieroglyphs, the city of Bahlam Jol “burned for the second time.” But, like much of Mayan writing and history, the record remained mysterious to modern Maya ...

Locate and research Mayan cities. Help students learn where Mexico and Central America are located. Have them find these areas on a world map. Tell them that the ancient Mayan population numbered ...