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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Archaeologists at Chichén Itzá unearthed a heavy stone with carvings of two ball players and complete Mayan hieroglyphic text, photos show. Photo from Raquel Moss via Unsplash Carefully digging ...

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 ...

Archaeologists exploring the Maya ruins of Xultun in Guatemala have, for the first time, deciphered the name of an ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician: Sak Tahn Waax, or “White-chested Fox.” Maya ...

ALL who are interested in American archæology (and especially those who do not read German) must feel greatly indebted to Dr. Brinton for his “Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics,” for in this little book ...

Balaj Chan K'awiil was born to privilege and given a kingdom, but he sold out to the enemy, defeated his former benefactors in battle and celebrated the victory by sacrificing the brother who mentored ...