Archaeologists reported that the script sample, discovered at San Bartolo in northeastern Guatemala, is clear evidence that the Maya were writing more than 2,300 years ago.

Taken together, these samples imply that the text was painted between 300 and 200 B.C. But it's likely that Mayan writing goes back a lot further, Saturno said.

Previous examples of Mayan script could only be confidently dated to around A.D. 250, leading to speculation that the Mayans may have inherited their writing from other, older cultures, such as ...

Since there are roughly 10,000 Mayan texts, but Isthmian is attested in only five to 10 samples, each new context provides invaluable opportunity for testing. "We have just found another inscription, ...

The calendar was among the achievements of a culture that also developed a writing system encompassing 800 glyphs, with the earliest examples also from San Bartolo. The Maya built temples ...

Mesoamerican cultures shaped the history of Central America through remarkable achievements in architecture, science, and society. Among the most influential were the Maya, who thrived in present ...

The stela, dating from 100 AD, provides an early example of Mayan writing, German expert Nikolai Grube told an event at Guatemala’s National Palace of Culture on Tuesday.

The glyph found on the mural fragments for "7 Deer," one of the calendar's 260 named days, consisted of the ancient Maya writing for the number seven over the outline of a deer's head.