Archaeologists from the United States and Guatemala made an interesting discovery while on a dig in the northern Guatemalan department of Petén. The researchers came across a piece of carved stone ...

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 ...

A 1,600-year-old Mayan stone tablet describing the rule of an ancient king has been unearthed in the ruins of a temple in Guatemala. The broken tablet, or stela, depicts the king's head, adorned with ...

Calendars, smart phones, your mother: each reminds you what you have to do. For eons, calendars have helped people predict the seasons, remember events, and track time. On May 10, 2012, history’s ...

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

Carefully digging through the soot-colored soil at an iconic pyramid in Mexico, archaeologists hit something hard. They took a closer look and quickly realized this was no ordinary stone. The ...

The Maya Snake queen Lady Ikoom was described on an nearly 1500-year-old stone monument unearthed at the Mayan city of El Peru. The Maya Snake queen Lady Ikoom was described on an nearly 1500-year-old ...

Ancient hieroglyphic texts reveal Mayans made major discovery in math and astronomy, a researcher suggests. This study blends the study of Mayan hieroglyphics (epigraphy), archaeology and astronomy to ...

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the caption for release dated March 28, 2016 with the accompanying corrected caption and photo credit. The release reads: WORLD’S LEADING AUTHORITY ON ...

GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA (JULY 22, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CO-DIRECTOR OF LA CORONA ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, MARCELO CANUTO, SAYING: “Excavations have discovered two ...

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 ...