Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By deciphering hieroglyphic inscriptions on centuries-old rocks, researchers have identified the name of a previously unknown Maya ...

For more than 120 years, the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data, has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

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 ...

The 'Foundation Rock' was discovered last year among the ruins at Cobá Ongoing analysis of an ancient monument among the Mayan ruins at Cobá has revealed the identity of one of the sprawling city’s ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

Introduction / Martha J. Macri and Anabel Ford -- Kinship terms in Maya inscriptions / David Stuart -- Phoneticism, dates, and astronomy at Chichén Itzá / James A. Fox -- The wrong language / Floyd D.

Last year, a series of ancient hieroglyphs were discovered in the jungle of Mexico. Now, they have been decoded, revealing the identity of a previously unknown Mayan ruler. INAH Ancient hieroglyphics ...

During a conference on August 12, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that workers from the Ministry of Culture’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) had found a ...

Classic Maya emblem glyphs / Peter Mathews -- Prehistoric polities of the Pasion region: hieroglyphic texts and their archaeological settings / Peter Mathews and Gordon R. Willey -- An epigraphic ...

As the date that some claim marks the apocalypse predicted by the Mayan calendar approaches on Friday, December 21, 2012, Drexel University’s Dr. Judith Storniolo, a teaching professor of anthropology ...

Cobá was a major urban center in the Maya world and was occupied from around 350 B.C. to the 14th century. It had a core of elite houses built around four lakes, along with thousands of residential ...