Brandeis MakerLab Maker in Residence Clara Alexander discusses her work on the Glyph Block Project. The Glyph Block Project is based on archaeological materials recovered from the ancient Maya site of ...

Wilmer Aram Ajú facilitates workshops on the ancient Mayan writing system to generate greater curiosity about the language ...

Knorosov knew that Maya had too many glyphs to be a true alphabet but too few for each glyph to symbolize an entire word. (Maya's 800-plus glyphs compare to the several thousand characters of ...

You can both read the ancient Maya (transcribed ... He is author, with Michael Coe, of Reading the Maya Glyphs (Thames & Hudson, 2005). Dr. Barbara MacLeod, whose ...

On the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula once stood the great Mayan city of Cobá. Recently this massive stone slab covered in 123 carved glyphs, each one providing more details about the mysterious ...

For years scholars painstakingly worked through paper to figure out the Maya glyphs, now they blog it. ... The ancient Maya meet the modern Internet. May 20, 2013 More than ...

Kneeling down, he saw a ribbon of characters, or glyphs, listing the kings of Holmul. ... archaeologists called it the Tikal hiatus and chalked it up as a mystery of the ancient Maya.

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI PROFESSOR DAVID LENTZ HOLDS UP A REPRODUCTION TILE FEATURING ANCIENT MAYA GLYPHS. RESEARCHERS DISCOVERED EVIDENCE OF CEREMONIAL OFFERINGS AT THE SITE OF AN ANCIENT MAYA ...

Groups like Ch'okwoj or Chíikulal Úuchben Ts'íib are hosting workshops, and making t-shirts and mugs using ancient Mayan glyphs to resuscitate them and transmit them to future generations.