LiveScience: Archaeologists excavating a pyramid complex in the Guatemalan jungle have uncovered the earliest example of Mayan writing ever found.

Excavators of a pyramid in northeastern Guatemala announced the discovery of the earliest known Maya writing.

A glyph found in an archeological site in Northern Guatemala dates from the third century BC, making it the earliest evidence of the Maya calendar.

Maya writing also was often accompanied by images, so researchers could compare the actions depicted in the images with their translation. The researchers who claimed to decipher the Isthmian script ...

The linguistic epigraphy of Maya Writing: recent advances and questions for future research / Søren Wichmann -- Chontal linguistic influence in ancient Maya writing: intransitive positional verbal ...

On April 21, 1971, a little-known Maya manuscript — a calendar for calculating the cycles of Venus — went on view at the Grolier Club in Manhattan as part of an exhibition on Maya writing. Each page ...

This paper summarizes several orthographic conventions pertaining to the usage of phonetic signs in Maya writing. These conventions have been recognized during the last twentyfive years and have been ...

Like the Maya writing system, the Maya calendar is probably much older than its first appearance on the 2,300-year-old plaster fragment.

Led by Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing, a group of scientists and journalists left Germany Tuesday, on a mission to Guatemala in search of a lost Maya treasure allegedly submerged ...