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 ...
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—Researchers from the Idiap Research Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the College of Humanities are working with ...
Translation of recently unearthed hieroglyphic stairs on an ancient Maya pyramid in Guatemala provides dramatic evidence that two great Maya city-states and their allies were locked in a brutal ...
GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA—Marcello A. Canuto of Tulane University and Tomás Barrientos of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala announced at a press conference the discovery of a fifth-century stela ...
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Archaeologists Decipher Crumbling Hieroglyphs to Reveal the Name of a Forgotten Maya Queen Who Ruled 1,400 Years Ago
Archaeologists in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula have decoded Maya hieroglyphs to identify the name of a sixth-century queen: Ix Ch’ak Ch’een. Ix Ch’ak Ch’een ruled over the city of Cobá, and she likely ...
The oldest recorded Maya calendar date has been revealed by high-resolution 3D scanning of an ancient Campeche moonument.
EPFL researchers have come up with an algorithm to analyze Mayan writing. This project could one day contribute to translating this complex and still partially unknown language. While some five ...
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.
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