The Glyph Block Project is based on archaeological materials recovered from the ancient Maya site of El Resbalón in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico. In the 1970s, a hieroglyphic stairway consisting of ...

Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that ... No one studying Maya hieroglyphs would get very far without being able to read the 19 numbers that form the base of their ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar ... From these observations, which were recorded daily in hieroglyphics, they computed eclipses, and other astronomical ...

Buried beneath it, he says, is a pyramid. In 700-800 C.E., the ancient Maya would ascend a stairway to a temple at the pyramid’s top to offer gifts and sacrifices to the kingdom’s patron deity.

Together with historical data from transcribed Maya hieroglyphic texts from other ... It’s one of the most graphic examples of ancient geopolitical strife ever found in the Maya world ...

"It is rare to find hieroglyphic writing at this Maya site, and even rarer to find a complete text. This hasn't happened in 11 years," archaeologist Francisco Pérez Ruiz explained. A team of ...