Maya

Earliest Evidence of Maya Calendar Found Inside Guatemalan Pyramid

WASHINGTON—A glyph representing a day called "7 Deer" on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use ...

April 14, 2022BY Reuters
Six Ways Ancient Maya Still Alter the Environment

Activities of the Maya 2,000 years ago in Central America contributed to the decline of their environment.

September 6, 2015BY Rachel Griess
Stone Tablet Tells Tale of Early Maya King

Archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved Maya stela—a stone tablet—from the site of El Achiotal that dates to the ...

July 24, 2015BY Michael Strecker
Maya Ceremony Center Built by Farmers and Hunters

Excavations at the ancient Maya lowlands site of Ceibal in Guatemala suggest that as the society moved from ...

March 25, 2015BY Alexis Blue

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