Among the plazas and terraces of a Maya city recently documented in the Campeche jungle, one slab of limestone stands out ...

Larry Millete won't be sentenced for the murder of his wife Maya until he faces a second criminal trial over an illegal ...

Scientists drove ATVs for miles and then hiked miles more through dense forest to reach a site untouched by looting on Mexico ...

An accidental discovery in Guatemala has revealed ancient Mayan calculations etched onto the walls of a buried room. These ...

The ancient Mayans were masters of time, keepers of good calendars. And now we have one of their timekeepers' workrooms to prove it. In a striking find, archaeologists in Guatemala report the ...

A study reveals that the “Glyph W” in Zapotec inscriptions counts the visible days of the moon, and for the first time places seven calendrical records over 2,200 years old in absolute time. Thanks to ...

sacred calendar called the "Tzolkin" that cycles every 260 days. The Mayan civilization flourished in Central America thousands of years ago. The ancient Maya, who possessed advanced astronomy and ...

From Maya calendars to WWII tech, Latin American writers explore how science shapes literature. Science and technology have existed in Latin America since well before Columbus arrived. But how have ...

Event Abstract: Ancient Maya cosmology and sociocultural conduct was entwined with a complex calendar system. This is evident from thousands of stone inscriptions and other extant texts, especially ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayan astrology is a modern term for a form of Mesoamerican calendrical and divinatory tradition that dates back to 2000 BCE. This ...

An ancient Mayan manuscript that includes a set of handwritten numbers, known as the Dresden Codex, turns out to have been far more than symbolic record keeping. New analysis shows the Dresden Codex ...

CU Linguistics, Anthropology, and CNAIS welcome Richard A. Sandoval of Metropolitan State University of Denver for a lecture exploring how Ancient Maya scribes encoded time, cosmology, and social ...